Sports, like other kinds of association, gather us together and remind us that the things worth accomplishing require collective effort.

They were approved unanimously by the council planning committee, and came after a successful funding application to the UK government's Levelling Up Fund worth more than £7m.

For someone like Musk with many billions’ worth of federal contracts to proceed without guardrails, Warren said, was “an invitation for corruption on a scale not seen in our lifetimes.”

The agricultural association he is a member of, AVA-ASAJA, estimates that well over €1bn euros worth of damage was caused on 29 October to crops alone.

And like any multicourse French feast worth its indulgence, this one clocks in at three hours.