Challenging orthodoxies

PAPERS which support Liz Truss have applauded her for “challenging orthodoxies”, especially at the Treasury (but not when she was there as chief secretary from June 2017 until July 2019).

I think the expression means Truss is brave enough to challenge received wisdom.

According to this perverse logic, anyone who insists two plus two does

not make four – or unchecked borrowing does not make inflation worse – is also fit to be the next Tory leader.

Remember Mr Micawber’s dictum in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”