Commentators have completely missed the staggering importance of Jamie Oliver’s new school dinners series. The premise is that he sets out to create edible and nourishing school dinners, within the budgetary constraints school catering now operates under.

Truism: We are what we eat. Truism: brain chemistry rules everything. Brain chemistry makes you dull or clever, brain chemistry makes you depressed or happy. We synthesise the relevant chemicals from what we eat. More: the young, whose brains are still constructing themselves, build using the chemicals extracted from what they eat.

And so Socialist Wanker asks: do we need another generation of inner-city kids brought up on a diet of saveloy and chips?

If the nourishing budget-fitting new school dinner recipes created by Jamie Oliver spread throughout the school catering system, we propose that a ripple-on effect will have an influence more profound than any politician now active on the future of the United Kingdom.

If it happens - if we are granted a generation of children with more or less healthy brain chemistries (they can fuck them up with drugs later, but at least they’ll have a good starting point) – then Jamie Oliver will tower, unremarked and unrecognised, in our history with a stature rivalling that of the Mahatma Gandhi.