What it lacks almost completely (in addition to wit) is an internal design — the farce's madcap spiralling of rigorous logic, which carries both plot and personality to the point of disintegration.
Mr McDonnell warned that many of the factors that caused the 2008 financial crash had re-emerged, with the spiralling of consumer debt, the balance of payments deficit – criticising Britain's current record on exports, and rising asset prices.
Her premiership saw the decline of heavy industry and factory closures in Glasgow and elsewhere leading to mass unemployment in communities and a spiralling of associated problems such as debt, alcoholism and drug abuse.
This was the Britain facing, according to the police, a "summer of rage", of savage cuts to public services, of unemployment spiralling, of an economy among the most imperilled in the developed world, of MPs diddling their exes.
What it lacks almost completely (in addition to wit) is an internal design the farce's madcap spiralling of rigorous logic, which carries both plot and personality to the point of disintegration.
Thus Fidelio opens in a remote galaxy, which looks almost exactly as people have imagined remote galaxies to look since the 1920s, save for the breathtaking darting and spiralling of Hill's three-dimensional projections and the total isolation in which Nikolai Schukoff's Florestan is suspended.
