Last autumn, as Britain stumbled from one political crisis to another, reports emerged that the country’s water utilities were dumping vast quantities of raw sewage into rivers and seas.
Such was the scale that rivers were polluted, swimming areas ruined and beaches overwhelmed. It all seemed like a metaphor for the state of the nation. The newspaper headlines wrote themselves.
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