A jostly crowd made it difficult to reach the stage.

Intensively cultivated and denuded of natural vegetation, the huge lowland flood-plains of major rivers, notably the Yellow and Yangzi, are a seemingly endless patchwork of fields.

To argue in that way, however, is not to compare like with like; it is to contrast the generic property of extension with the more specific properties of hardness, smell and colour. It is not after all clear that it loses the generic properties of smell, colour and perhaps solidity, as opposed to the more specific forms of those properties that the unmelted wax may have.

At Wednesday’s Europa League final, more than half the tickets have gone to corporate guests and others with no skin in the game.