Water, water everywhere and not a drop that's safe to swim in.
Apologies for the bastardised Coleridge quote, but it felt pretty apposite when considering the latest crisis engulfing our broken nation. Right now it feels like each week in the United Kingdom brings further evidence of how years of policy failures, privatisation and deregulation have left us in a state of near-collapse.
This week we had the news that the UK's largest water company, Thames Water, is on the verge of going to the wall and may have to be bailed out by the taxpayer.
