Everyone seems to be banging on about this cosmic ordering codswallop.

From my editor to Phil Hellmuth, sending out a request into the ether seems to be the new ‘in’ thing. Even TV presenter Noel Edmonds has been at it. Edmonds, who has enjoyed a huge renaissance with hit TV show Deal or No Deal?, apparently owes his recent successes to the new-age phenomenon.

Edmonds’ cosmic ordering is a non-religious school of thought that claims you can request the universe uses its energy to make your dreams come true. As long as you remain positive and believe that it’s going to happen, it will.