The coalition's first and maybe greatest foolishness, in 2011, was to entrench a referendum in Britain's creaky constitution on all major EU treaty change.
His greatest foolishness, though, is to try to solve constitutional issues that affect the whole of the United Kingdom with proposals that are both partial – aimed at England alone – and partisan: aimed at advantaging the Tories.
On the whole, the greater the earlier reputation for omniscience, the more serene the previous idiocy, the greater the foolishness now exposed".
Sporting giant mutton-chop sideburns that make him look like a stock Gilbert and Sullivan character, Mr. Dennehy's Sir Toby takes sly pleasure in egging on his addled friend to greater feats of foolishness.
Its greatest example of foolishness may be the way the Bodleian Library at Oxford sold off a precious First Folio in the 1660s to purchase the Third Folio, which added errors to the first (though Oxford was able to re-acquire the First in 1906).
"My story of my relations with women is mainly a story of greed, foolishness and great expectation," he concluded, adding that its insights into "the misfit of male and female desires" made it a story worth telling.
While he agreed that rock 'n' roll is musically dull ("remarkable only for its resolute rejection of the rhythmic complications and subtleties of jazz and ragtime"), he saw in the craze a great deal more than mere foolishness or perversity.
Unfortunately, in the eyes of many in the West, foolishness is the greater crime, especially if there is this kind of power imbalance.
How could such a great musician ever offer up such bloodthirsty foolishness?
The first campaign, which took place in 2016, showcased the beauty and biodiversity of The Great Australian Bight in order to demonstrate the foolishness of allowing BP to commence oil exploration in the area, with a view towards setting up deep sea drilling operations in the future.
