All who were there have commented on the supercharged atmosphere among a crowd whipped into a frenzy by the nationalism stirred up by their first clash with Albania in Belgrade since 1967.
After a visit to the constituency, the Labour MP Tom Watson stirred the pot by saying: "I have never encountered such animosity on the doorstep against an incumbent MP – particularly one as high-profile".
But before long, the creeping daylight stirred me awake.
The leading GOP contenders for 2016 took turns in criticising nuclear talks with Iran and President Obama's efforts to combat Isis; supporting religious freedom legislation of the kind that recently stirred controversy in states such as Indiana and Arkansas; and talking about gun ownership, often in the same breath as they roasted Hillary Clinton.
Williamson has repeatedly stirred up controversy with comments denying the Holocaust, praising the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, as a peacemaker, warning that Muslims are taking over Europe, and claiming that women are dominating corporations and the military because they are not fulfilling their natural role "making babies".
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The issue stirred controversy at the climate summit in Lima, where there were big gaps between the science of climate change and the policy and business responses.
On Saturday, Jonathan Eyal, the international director of the Royal United Services Institute, took issue with Blair's analysis and any implication that western governments were not informed before invading Iraq of the sectarian violence that was likely to be stirred up.
Still, the fact that a feminist website had paid to see this was catnip to those who stirred the pot with lots of hyperbole about the extent to which Dunham had been retouched.
Several films on this year's shortlist have been lauded over the past year by critics and viewers worldwide, and some have stirred major controversy in their own countries.
The story had captivated me and stirred my jealousy to such a degree that I could recall the birth almost as a memory of my own – I wanted to return there, as to a favourite page in a favourite book.
