“When Paul played it to me at Abbey Road, I thought ‘I’m a usurper here; my dad should be around,’” Martin said.

One of Shakespeare's famous tragedies, the story follows Prince Hamlet, who is encouraged by his father's ghost to avenge his death by killing his uncle, the usurper of the throne.

The Fremen, whose home planet is Arrakis, where Spice is mined, bedevil the miners and the troops that protect them and, as the indigenous population battling imperial usurpers, are the faction you should root for.

Luckily the voters have managed to keep the most powerful would-be usurpers out of office and Congress set up some serious roadblocks.

He’d recently been instructed to sign a request for a presidential pardon but refused to beg for mercy from Vladimir Putin, who he denounces as “a dictator, usurper and a murderer”.