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

[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

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

The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.

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

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.