Indeed, he gave a lucid self-diagnosis of these competing tendencies when referring to the irony of his defection from Britain at the beginning of the First World War, describing himself as 'a coward, a turn-coat, whose lifework was to celebrate in music beauty-born-of-bravery!'

On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.

It is equally captured in the Walmarting of hundreds of towns where whole downtown business and residential communities have been destroyed

Drew warned of the danger of Eurocreep, ...