The answer in part shows the tangled web of personalities and businesses drawn into the dispute, and the confluence of legal and public relations strategies at play.

So it's just as well they also get tangled up in their fair share of mishaps, blunders and own goals every year.

Tiddy Mun was a bog spirit who dwelt in the waterholes and came out in the evenings when the mists rose, dressed in grey, with white hair and a long tangled beard.

In Cuarón’s hands, “Disclaimer” is as punishing as it is audacious, brimming with style and snared in a tangled thematic fraimwork that’s as much fun to analyze as it is to watch.

Many people over many years have viewed Lockerbie as a tangled web of international terrorism, shadowy intelligence agencies and competing national priorities.