There are no permanent victories in the battle for liberty and the economic prosperity that it engenders.

We know that Guardian readers are being told this - look, it’s right there in the newspaper - but whether they’ll make that mental leap to know it is unknown.

We have all encountered the practice of shrinkflation, where producers reduce the size or weight of their product to avoid having to increase its price.

One of the proofs that we are not a party political organisation is that we welcome good policy wherever it stems from.

Ministers tell us that everything is ‘on the table’. And many people believe, even expect, that the UK should retaliate against Donald Trump’s new trade tariffs with tariffs of our own.

While the UK’s Department of Health campaigns against people becoming fat and urges them to slim down, there is a strong case for slimming down the Department itself.

Last week we pointed out that to solve the Birmingham binmen strike it is necessary to pay teaching assistants more.

One of those little proofs that if you put the word “political” in front of another - as with “social” in front, or “studies” after - then you have wholly destroyed the meaning of the word being so modified.

Apparently being able to leave Luton is a bad idea. So says Caroline Lucas: Almost 90% of flights from Luton are taken for leisure - in other words British tourists taking their money out of the country to spend abroad. Expanding Luton is not good for UK growth…

Tariffs are a counter-productive policy, both misconceived and damaging to those who impose them. The new tariffs imposed by President Trump will make US goods more expensive for US consumers.

There’s an old City adage that specific mistakes only come along once in a generation. Folk see the mistake, learn from it, then don’t repeat it.

Many years ago I published a paper entitled ‘The Paratransit Light Vehicle.’ It examined ride-sharing schemes in several world cities. These included the Philippine jeepneys, the Argentine colectivos, the Turkey dolmus, the Israeli sheruts and others.