Returning to core values

As Pete Townshend and the lads put it; we won’t get fooled again. We are a chastened people, with watchdogs in place to rein us in, to stop us making the same old mistakes.

We are aware now that when things appear to be going great; when it looks, for all the world, as though we have never had it better; it is the first sign that there is something drastically, dangerously wrong.

So we should really have copped it immediately — the giddier we became through an exhilarating, novelty-laden hurling summer, the clearer it should have been that we were actually deep in crisis.