Some Things Are Worth More

After a month in which the weather has melted roads and warped railway tracks, and with the prospect of the worst drought in half a century to come, Her Majesty's Government is, as usual, offering simple solutions for the little people. England can win the climate crisis as long as the great unwashed don't take too many baths; and farmers can safely let their fields dry out by exhorting their crops and livestock to patriotic restraint. Most British of all, the water industry, while wasting three thousand million litres a day through prioritising profits over infrastructure, is providing helpful hints and handy tips on how each and every plucky little Briton can do their humble bit, via a national rah-rah called Water's Worth Saving.