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

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

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

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

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?

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.