If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

Brexit will happen.

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.