One of those wonderfully colourful, powerfully descriptive phrases of the American vernacular is that ‘reform means taking some dog’s bone’. That may be just a street version of ‘follow the money’, but it rings all too true, especially when we hope uber-powerful entities might change their ways and help us change ours.

Some years ago, as ever more industrialised commercial fishing decimated fish population after fish population, conservationists suggested that the last generation of humans who would eat wild fish taken from our seas had been born.

Bulldozers began demolishing the old Wembley stadium today – marking the end of an era for one of the most famous stadiums in the world.