He rejected suggestions that Rise of the Jack-O'-Lanterns had merely copied Westchester's formula, saying that his exhibit, unlike the Blaze, had no large-scale sculptures like dinosaurs and included references to pop culture, like Justin Bieber and Derek Jeter.
The fact that he is both Jewish and a lifelong activist on what used to be called the hard left puts him in an interesting place when it comes to suggestions of rising antisemitism in the reinvented Labour party: in a recent piece for the Jewish Chronicle, he warned against "allowing the trivialisation of antisemitism through its opportunistic misuse as a political football".
They seem to cower at the suggestion of rising action, to blush at the heightened causality that makes a story a story.
There are suggestions of a rise in teenage pregnancies prompted by a fall in school attendances while there is also a rise in evictions caused by the virus – victims who returned home to find that their tenancies have been rescinded.
It includes violence, adult language and suggestions of the rise of Satan not even as scary as a Marilyn Manson CD cover.
Almost a third of children aged 2-15 were overweight or obese in 2011 – 31% of boys and 28% of girls – but that is little changed on the previous year, and there have been suggestions that the rise is levelling off.
These suggestions show the rise of a new perspective on resources in current biogas practice, focusing on biomass that is less attractive, less readily available and more difficult to process.
The suggestion, however, gives rise to the question of how the games could be arranged in the divided city.
Snowdrops started appearing in some parts of the UK towards the end of last month, a whole week earlier than expected, giving rise to suggestions that winter could be coming to an end.
For a while the president watched from the sidelines, giving rise to suggestions that Lady McGabe, as she has become known, may succeed him, or at least that she aspires to do so.The most immediate beneficiary of the shuffle, however, was the other possible heir, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the defence minister, who was given the vice-presidency.
