But if there was, it would be very disappointing if he was wilfully allowed to board an airplane... and there would be, without any question, some effect and impact on the relationship and consequences.
So I was there at the very nascent stages, when the government – wilfully and in deepest secrecy – subverted the constitution.
From the outset, far from simply being a vote-winning machine, the neoliberal capture of the party was wilfully unrepresentative and with very damaging results.
The truth, of course, is that his analysis misunderstands – perhaps wilfully – the real nature of influence.
A spokesperson said: "These figures are completely misleading and wilfully ignore the real progress that's been made through removing the very worst performing schools from council control and turning them into sponsored academies.
Anti-capitalism is too wilfully disorganised a movement to change very much on its own.
For me, growing up in the north of Nigeria, the symbolism seemed very different: it showed one half of a wilfully bisected country, and I was living in the half that the insurrection had rendered invisible.
At one point, Orbit strapped on a guitar and led the group into a cacophonous interlude that sounded like Frank Zappa at his most wilfully obtuse but thankfully the moment passed, and a very glamorous Beth Orton entered stage left to speak and sing her way though a drifting, fragile sad song that ended all too soon.
Such dramas, of course, are a standard feature of adolescent narratives and John is, in many ways, a very typical teenager: striving for independence before he really knows what it involves, cocky, prone to showing off, wilfully oblivious to the feelings of others.
Now, I really don't think my esteemed colleagues in the media are wilfully making this mistake.
