Trying to understand the world can often feel like you're trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle but can only see two of the pieces at the same time. You stare at those two pieces alongside each other. If you think that they fit together then you put them to the side. If you don’t then you try again. The whole thing takes a long time and at the end of it all, you still only have a bunch of

It is customary, late on a Friday afternoon, for Fathom to offer its staff a complimentary alcoholic beverage from the company fridge. Collectively, we have a taste for imported wine and beer, as indeed do many people across the UK. Unfortunately, such luxuries have risen substantially in price over the past few months. Fathom's management, in a textbook case, has responded to the price change accordingly. During the three months to August, the total amount spent on alcohol by the