For Defra, funding for flood defences and disease prevention are likely to be protected.

The course of the actual warfare is seen as a confrontation between vigorous frontier pragmatism and stilted European tactics – canny American marksmen with their squirrel guns, hiding among the trees and picking off British regulars as the redcoats marched stiffly past in their serried ranks, their drums beating and their flags flying.

The problem at hand is not the inability of the Arabs and the Jews to live together peacefully.

He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth.