My colleagues and I come to this task with open minds, we are apolitical and independent of any political party.

Hers is not simply a plea for the value of tragedy, for that awareness of death which increases incentives for life; it is rather a negative use of death as the great leveler, the evener of scores.

The weakening of local currencies – in Argentina, Australia and Brazil – gave a blush to the financial numbers. (As a whole, all-in sustaining costs (AISC) improved to an average of $911/oz compared with the $924/oz recorded in the first half of 2015).

All I had to remember Claudia by was an earring she had dropped on my floor and a neckful of embarrassing hickeys.