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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all It is – or it should be – a truth universally acknowledged that the yard-sale of government owned utilities has not been an unmitigated success. Far from …

Once more upon the waters, yet once more! It’s been a while since I last dived into this topic (sorry), but I thought it was about time to revisit the wretched question: how the heck do we sort out the mess our water sector has found itself in? I’m not …

There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats Imagine if you will, that most bucolic of images: Cambridge/Oxford, boater-wearing Sebastian Flyte-types punting their way along the Cam/Isis, impressing the tea-frock wearing girlfriend languidly trailing her hand in the river water …

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Like any right-minded middle-class girl, I went to the sea-side on my holidays. Shame it was the weekend where the south coast was beset with 45 …

But thrown upon this filthy modern tide And by its formless spawning fury wrecked Pop quiz, hot-shots. What lasted for 1 million hours in 2022? And has carried on during 2023? I warn you, the answer’s not for the faint hearted, or sensitive of stomach. If you’re reading this over …

A river is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same In June 2019, at the BMF Conference in Dubrovnik, I got up at stupid-o’clock to go for a swim in the Adriatic Sea, an attempt to clear my hangover. It worked. At …