Embodying “enshittification” (credit: The Cunning Man)
Inconceivable that anyone could stick that on a plate and expect someone to pay for it, much less eat it
This article is taken from the June 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Find our subscription offers here.
It’s easy to forget how bad things were … water quality was poor; rivers were polluted and our beaches were badly affected by sewage.” Thus then Water UK chief executive Michael Roberts in 2019, the thirtieth anniversary of the privatisation of Britain’s water companies.