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

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.

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

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.