Want to understand British irony, humour and politics? Visit the NHS suggestions website | Emma Beddington

Put a Wetherspoon’s in every hospital? Make Larry the Cat the health minister? The public’s ideas are like British banter bingo – but they show how much we careDo you ever wonder if the British might be a fundamentally unserious people? I do, though I should stress that I include myself; a thoroughly trivial person whose “professional” life is mainly spent in the silliest corners of an internet that long ago destroyed my capacity for joined-up thinking.Still, if you