“Ufff”, my partner said as she put to rest a bunch of plastic bags she had just managed to drag from the supermarket, “so many things to buy”. I was pealing the spuds at the kitchen sink at the time, preparing the lunch, but I still managed to lean over, give her a kiss, and remind her that not everything can be bought: as the Beatles used to say “money can’t buy you love”. Then I remembered this headline.

Cabins designed in the Netherlands, (made in China no-doubt), sex workers from Eastern Europe (some 40,000 of them apparently), (capital possibly kindly provided by hedge funds), and customers from Western Europe, the US and Japan. Well, comparative advantage triumphs again. I imagine the terms of the Bolkestein directive will not be applied.