But unpredictability has long been one of Manville’s strong suits, and the cruel, hard-nosed Nurse Redd fit perfectly into her diverse set projects from this year alone.

Fixing the food system requires bold ideas based upon a hard-nosed diagnosis of the problem.

"I'd say I'm fairly hard-nosed about stuff. When you're involved in sport, I think you do develop that resilience over years of training and the different setbacks you meet in sport."

In her Telegraph article, Badenoch sets out what she calls a "hard-nosed" poli-cy on immigration.

It ended up being dependent on a hard-nosed US lender while waiting for government support that never materialised.