Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

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?

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

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.