In this adaptation, she explained, the “repetition of the walking figure is disrupted by the apparent attempt of the performer to use unusual, inexpedient maneuvers to negotiate a bulky piece of furniture.”

“Under such a situation, the continuation of contracts for Gazprom is economically inexpedient and unprofitable.”

In fact, the House Criminal Justice Committee, which held hearings on the bill, deemed it inexpedient to legislate, to give the study commission time to finish its work.

The bishops also told the pope of their total opposition to Mr Maduro’s “unnecessary, inexpedient…and dangerous plan” to convene an unelected constituent assembly next month.

Just as it was wrong and inexpedient for medieval France to demonise the Protestants, so too it would be wrong for today's politicians to demonise Islam or its followers.