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The nation’s most painful sacrifices were absorbed by his Democratic predecessors—in Obama’s case, that was the agonizingly slow recovery from the Great Recession that began under George W. Bush, and in Biden’s it was the pandemic-era round of inflation that struck every single country on the planet.

The country performer’s stories about music are rife with the minute observations and historical tidbits absorbed and disseminated by die-hard fans.

"You add all those things together, and you get a dramatic change in budgets of a scale that's never going to be absorbed by efficiencies, and is going to require some pretty eye-watering cuts to sort of to the services we provide to London."

Statements of the UK population growing annually by a total equal to the population of a city such Oxford or Nottingham – as popularised by Migration Watch and employed by politicians including Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage – don’t give a true impression of the dispersal of those arrivals, nor of how successfully or poorly they are absorbed into existing demand for public services.

Their aunt, Barbara Sastre, told us they were like little bugs - “bichetes” - an endearing description to convey how they buzzed around, that is, when they weren’t absorbed by their cartoons.