So a man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes, as far as I think anyone with any sense about this should be concerned.

So you probably know most Americans don't come anywhere near using all their vacation time.

But there's nothing anywhere near as efficient as light as a source

News that two people who had a harrowing break-up are now trying to get back together again a few months or years down the line tends, among sensible people, to raise at the very least suspicion, if not outright irritation and despair. Why are these two cursed lovers heading back to the old chaos and drama? Isn't this just a fantasy sprung from naivety, loneliness and most probably short-term lust? Shouldn't they keep faith with their original choice, double down on the highs and lows of dating and perhaps each buy a dog? And yet, to deny ex-couples any legitimate chance to revisit their situation also feels excessively punitive and in its way naïve, insisting blindly that people can never change, that psychotherapy and introspection, books and conversations, time and long walks have nothing whatsoever to teach us, is as foolish as to assume that change can come readily and lightly. For every misguided attempt to resume a relationship, there must be a proportion of equally misguided refusals to countenance a new start, born not out of wisdom so much as pre-emptive fear and disbelief that people are, occasionally, able to learn a new thing or two. We need to make progress a tool with which to strip the matter of sentiment and rationally distinguish mature from sentimental plans. What follows is a sequence of questions, amounting to a kind of examination, that exes who are meeting up again after a long break should discuss with one another – and as importantly, with themselves – before coming anywhere near to holding hands, let alone – and here we must be very definitive – going to bed.

So this is something serious for the Israelis, not only for what they say as protection of the Druze, but what is important for them is that members of jihadi groups that are now part of the official military and part of the official security forces are not present anywhere near the Israeli borders.

Come to find out, a few years later, I wasn't anywhere near that.

It was the Premier League miracle that still doesn't make sense. Leicester City were considered more likely to get relegated than finish anywhere near the top five. And yet, by the time mid-season

There was also a challenge with having the engines on the legs in that if you happened to vector your arm engines anywhere near the intakes of the lower engine, we realized that your inducted air is going in, and that would then spike the exhaust temperature.

Stockfish doesn't blunder anywhere near the traditional sense,

I'm not having him anywhere near it.