He seized on the tax-raising concessions made to Scotland and demanded them for the capital.
A large majority of voters said it made no difference – a finding seized on by Angus Robertson, the SNP's election coordinator.
They will point out that, again and again, the men who seized Dublin's GPO on Easter Monday 95 years ago did not represent majority opinion in Ireland.
But Apfel has seized the imagination not as a couture fashion plate but as an example to a free-spirited, adventurous New York mindset that, these days, seems in danger of getting lost beneath the anodyne beauty of a Manhattan aesthetic that worships cosmetic dentistry and blow-drying above individuality or creativity.
The New York Times reported that individuals called from the seized phone had contacted the ISI, the main Pakistani military intelligence agency.
The former prime minister had managed to fire up natural Labour voters, after a month in which it seemed the key theme of the no camp – the danger posed by independence – had been seized by the yes side, as Salmond hammered on the risks to the NHS if Scotland remained in the UK.
Amid the rejoicing, the unlikely allies who had secured victory for the no campaign would soon be back at each other's throats, after Cameron seized the moment of triumph to play the English card – providing the SNP a quick route back from defeat.
The country boosted security on its 500-mile border with Iraq in July, deploying thousands of troops to back up border guards after the jihadis captured Mosul, seized swaths of territory including Anbar province, and announced a caliphate straddling the border with Syria.
Players, however, have seized the opportunity and they are getting away with it.
Law enforcement officers who seized cellphones in a hunt for evidence of lewd activity following a wild party at a New Jersey bar last summer have been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit charging the officers with privacy violations.
With the top two (Lancashire and Surrey) playing out a rain-affected draw in which Gareth Batty, perhaps infected by the battle-fever at the sight of the Red Rose, chose to bat into the third day, Glamorgan seized the chance to close on a promotion slot with a win over Northamptonshire.
