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I'm too young to remember the infamous London smogs of the 1950s, or pea-soupers, as the impregnable clouds of coal, industrial emissions and Thames-borne fog were nicknamed.

But my father recounts periods when he had to fumble his way blindly along building walls on his daily commute as the once-familiar route became shrouded in a blanket of smog and he was completely disorientated in the blackness.

It may be because I'm looking out of my office window on another grey,...

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