Not the Way We Do Things

Someone has made an anonymous donation worth over two and a half million pounds towards repairing the water pipes in Osaka. Admittedly, the gesture is a quixotic one - the money is in gold bars, and is enough to pay for the renewal of about a hundred and thirty-third of the city's antiquated system - but the donor's apparent obsession with mere infrastructure over the needs of moisture provision profiteers is surely a dangerous whim. City officials are stunned, as well they might be, at such anti-business and un-British conduct.