The democratic dividends for Scotland have been kept well off the agenda by the big-business-led no campaign and its Nicodemite fellow travellers – a few of whom are writers.

In the city of Zhengzhou, the vice premier inspected the Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, the Zhengzhou City Center for Disease Control and a community public health service station in the city’s Jinshui District.

He was beat all hollow, i.e. he had no chance of conquering. It was all hollow, or a hollow thing, it was a decided thing from the beginning.

She estranged her husband by not talking to him for over a year.