Around the time of their 2008 debut album, Antidotes, they were a thoroughly self-critical band and that's one thing that hasn't changed, through 2010's more ambient Total Life Forever and up to the present date.
From 1934 to 1938, when she was at the height of her fame, Shirley Temple (later known as Shirley Temple Black), who has died aged 85, appeared in films as a bright-eyed, curly-topped, dimpled cherub, whose chirpy singing and toddler's tap dancing were perfect antidotes to the depression.
His proposals for a free market in babies or his explanation of why high-heeled shoes are considered sexy for women (they make it harder to run away from husbands) might be defended as adventurous antidotes to lazy thinking.
Reforms along these lines would oblige people to work longer and encourage them to save more in the end, the only real antidotes to the economic problem posed by an ageing population.
The government is now worried that few of those inoculated have donated blood, which could be used to make antidotes for those who develop bad side-effects to the vaccine.In Britain, the government plans to vaccinate emergency workers and to stockpile a lot of vaccine, though it won't say how much.
So apparent antidotes to ageing, such as immigration of younger workers, would require huge inflows to make a real dent on dependency ratios.
Yet the high calling of diplomacy is to find antidotes to the rivalries that poison geopolitics.
Despite these reservations, some fine courageous stations do now serve the region such as Radio Okapi, broadcasting from Congo; two of its journalists have been killed.For analysts of hate radio and its antidotes, the Balkans provide evidence of what works.
The OECD worries loudly about America's current-account deficit on course, it thinks, for $900 billion next year and offers the usual list of antidotes: more saving in America, faster demand growth in Europe and Japan.
The unpredictability of germ warfare seemed to make biological weapons useless on the battlefield and both sides had antidotes to the relatively narrow range of weapons available.
It is also a reason to look for antidotes to stagnation beyond macroeconomic policy.
