We don’t think much of the way poverty is measured these days - it confuses inequality with poverty - and most of the alternatives suggested are worse.

People in temporary accommodation are not the homeless. People in temporary accommodation are the people the welfare state has saved from homelessness.

No, the answer does not have to be importing people.

You know that idea that inequality is the grand terror? That the good society - even The Good Society - is one ruled by economic equality?

That the bureaucracy itself, when presented with all the relevant information, has to make a decision in less than geologic time seems sensible to us. It also doesn’t seem like a huge imposition. Nor even a loosening of necessary protections.

Chlorine-washed chicken is not, in fact, an important issue. Every bag of washed salad in the European Union - and UK - has been washed in chlorinated water.

As we suggested yesterday about the planning system: Freedom from the system itself will only apply to those bureaucratic micturation schemes.

We list these achievements not to boorishly hark back to our country’s former glory, but to remind us how prosperity was painstakingly built – brick by brick, track by track – to inspire us to look forward with hope and possibility.

As we all know one of the exceptions to free trade, all free trade, all the time free trade, is national security.

This could be viewed as a little reductionist, even concentrating too much on a tiny detail, but the entire point of this whole civilisation thing is to knit bobble hats for post boxes.

Do tariffs allow an outbreak of capitalist greed? The Lizzie Warren explanation? Well, actually, yes.

It is competition in a free marketplace - free in the sense that others may enter - that turns that greed driven capitalism to the consumer benefit.