The great reform summit has just ended and, as I predicted, was a complete waste of time. There were a couple of standard features of all reform summits, which was reassuring, as it lessened the danger of stumbling into anything original or sensible. The organisers made sure there were no normal delegates; so far as I could tell, there was no-one who had ever had a job, as distinct from being the paid mouthpiece of some industry or do-gooder organisation.