In the law of torts, our tradition, our law, has been that you don't have the duty to rescue someone if that person is in danger.
Emergency services said on Friday the decision had been made because of the danger posed by flying debris in the predicted strong winds.
The adrenalin pumps regularly and often, whether we're in mortal danger or just coming out to bat at number 9 for Malden Wanderers third XI.
"I think there's a real danger for the UK and the Westminster parties if they present a referendum that would lead to exit from the EU," she tells me.
Jason Gillespie has been shielded from questions regarding the job of England head coach, while his director of cricket at Yorkshire, Martyn Moxon, has admitted that the rumours linking the Australian with the role are in danger of becoming a permanent distraction to England's champion county.
"Even at 18, a mentally voracious young woman cannot live entirely upon scenery," she wrote, adding that she would have been in danger of "dying of spontaneous combustion" had she not had her diary to write and an interesting curate in a nearby village.
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.
"At that point," the Tory source said, "Labour were very good at capturing the unionist vote, and we couldn't be characterised as the party that wanted to put the union in danger – it would have angered our people.
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.
Either outcome would afford terrorists an ideal sanctuary, a greater danger than Awlaki even at his most malign, especially for the pro-western monarchies elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula.
