This isn’t what Baroness Batters - formerly head of the National Farmers’ Union - means to say but it is what she does say: Batters said: “One of the long-term and growing challenges to farming is that land is often more profitable for anything else, other than producing food.”

Apparently beer may only be sold in half pint cans.

The essential starting point is that tariffs are only one part of the costs of trade. Transport’s another, being able to communicate between buyer and seller another and it’s possible to compile a list as long as a tariff schedule of further such costs.

The Princess Royal has said that the UK needs a “long-term vision” and “a coherent national programme” when it comes to building affordable rural housing.

Inflation means rising prices, which is hard to conflate with falling prices. On the other hand, if prices fall and wages don’t then real wages rise and poverty declines - which sounds like a fair enough plan to us.

Philip Duffy, the agency’s chief executive, said: “Waste crime is toxic. Criminals’ thoughtless actions harm people, places, and the economy, blighting our communities and disrupting legitimate businesses.

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.