Surely there are more pressing matters in the world today that require attention and explanation than KP throwing his toys out of the pram, only for the ECB to throw them straight back in again?

England Cricket has prided itself on having an immaculate reputation – whiter than its whites – so how has it allowed a clash of personalities and a bulging ego to escalate into delicious media fodder that has opponents licking their lips? Rumours fed to the media in recent days should have been nipped in the bud – shouldn’t they?

Not that this is by any stretch of the imagination a ‘crisis’ (although listening to the news last night, you’d think the end was nigh for the future of English cricket), but where was the crisis management? Who was attempting to smother KP’s “I’m more important than you” gestures and controlling an intensifying spat? Somehow, Pietersen has been allowed to admit to a divided dressing room and resentment behind closed doors, with details of an “I go, if he stays” ultimatum spreading worldwide.

Perhaps I have answered my own question by ranting about KP and the state of English Cricket, or is this just a sporting spat that has come as a welcome tonic to dogged talk of a recession, job losses and store closures?

A successful entrepreneur needs to take risks, push themselves and others to their limits and show unlimited reserves of initiative and imagination.  Those are all qualities which need to be allowed to flourish in childhood.   Swopping a screen for real life experiences and keeping kids indoors safe – and sedentary – stifles drive and kills creativity.   It’s hard to imagine these slack-jawed screen addicts blossoming into the pioneering British entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

On the homefront, I’ve made my own small stand for freerange childhood by shoving my little boys out the door to make short trips (gasp!) by themselves. Walking to the local shop or a friend’s house is something entirely normal that any child of a reasonable age should be able to do.  Yet, in our skewed world, it has somehow morphed into an act of unspeakable danger.

The real danger is what our nation’s obsession with health and safety is doing to the next generation.