Forget the Age of Aquarius – yes, stop humming that annoying tune – it’s really the Age of Incompetence. You have to admit that incompetence is everywhere. There is a complete lack of attention to detail, a failure to plan and an absence of accountability.

If it’s not Flossie, the tunneller, bogged under metres of mud in the Kosciuszko National Park, it’s the renovation of the North Sydney swimming pool.