certainty

Hughes is a more relaxed, social person, if ultimately more hamstrung by moral certainty.

Given her history of physical issues, and the defiant manner in which she makes her own decisions even if they are viewed unfavourably from the outside, you would not have predicted with complete certainty she would be alongside her Great Britain team-mates.

The timing is challenging for UC, which begins issuing offers of admission in March before it knows with certainty how much state funding it will receive.

And it’s only a top-up for a year, with no certainty over long-term funding.

“If you know that your bus is coming in five minutes, then you know you have that certainty,” says Silviya Barrett, director of policy and research from the Campaign for Better Transport.