And yet, at last glance, the "I hate Kyle Singler" Facebook pages have, at most, hundreds of followers.
Yet at last night's debate on the bill to nationalise, I noticed a gaping hole in the scope of this legislation.
Yet at last tally, we ranked only 23rd (yes, 23rd!) among nations in life expectancy, despite our robust elderly population.
Yet, at last month's first presidential debate with Clinton in New York, when asked whether he would accept the outcome in November, Trump said he would.
Yet at the last count net migration stood at a UKIP-maddening 298,000 and rising.
Yet when at last they contested elections, the Islamists were stunningly successful.
Yet no, at last gasp it's Richard Wallace, ex-showbiz editor and US gossip hound, who's been minding the Sunday shop for four months while the editor there, Tina Weaver, finishes maternity leave.
Under its absolute rule, confronted by embargoes from almost the entire world, the Chinese nation paid an enormous price, in famine and civil strife, yet achieved at last an unchallenged national independence of a truly sovereign state within the Western established international order.
And yet, when at last the watchers in the European States saw the star rise, an hour later it is true, but no larger than it had been the night before, there were still plenty awake to laugh at the master mathematician - to take the danger as if it had passed.
Yet if, at last, this really did signify the mellowing, on all fronts, of the enfant terrible of the Arab world, it was a process that was suddenly thrown into reverse by a single horrific legacy of the terrorist past which he was apparently trying to put behind him.
AT LAST, by Edward St . Aubyn
