Four members of the squadron were on patrol.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

Liz Truss has sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as her chancellor and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt ahead of a U-turn on key sections of her disastrous mini-budget, as she launched a desperate attempt to restore her crumbling political authority.

She seems pulsingly alive in a way that the grand, marmoreal singers sometimes did not.