Not quite Brothers Grimm, though grim none the less. By, not all accounts. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, May 2026. The photograph The Telegraph called "a grim vision of future Britain." [A photograph. A headline. And the question nobody thought to ask.] Did you know there is an old Turkish proverb that the forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, because the axe was clever, and had convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them? Me neither.