His Edymandias EdStone moment may have been one of the most ill-conceived political stunts of all time: fortunately the monarchy came to the rescue with the timely arrival of the royal baby to fill the news pages instead.
The Turkish government, meanwhile, has enraged Greeks by pledging to step up exports to Russia to fill the gap.
"And I was very open with journalists, so they didn't try to fill in gaps in the story, which meant a platform of mutual respect was established from the outset," Batty will say.
I have four children to support, how can I fill their stomachs?
The play begins with a long sequence where the characters are tossing a coin to fill time.
He was brought in to fill the gap left by the departure of George Ford for Bath – Leicester's opponents on Sunday – when Ford tired of playing second fiddle to the man he could well replace in the England team when Flood moves to France in the summer, probably to Toulouse, although that is yet to be confirmed.
Most of them could fill almost any Today show half hour as the week ended.
In what has been described as a "spill and fill" internally, 50 regional content manager jobs have been declared redundant and another 52 chief of staff positions created.
National Grid announced it was close to signing up three power stations to help fill the gap left by closures, breakdowns and delays, and said the cost to consumers of paying for extra capacity and for companies to adjust their consumption if necessary will be about £1 per household.
She compared their evolutionary radiations – or how species adapt to and fill ecological niches – to famous examples like Darwin's finches in the Galapagos or the cichlids of East Africa's lakes.
With more than one in seven high street stores already lying empty, property experts do not expect the rapacious growth of food chains to fill that void.
