incendiary

"Their incendiary style might work on the small grounds in England on pitches prepared to be as flat as one-day pitches," he said.

These include cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns, incendiary devices inserted into cargo depots, surveillance and sometimes sabotage of undersea cables.

That was high-risk enough - it's not generally the done thing in politics to advertise your own weakness - but the decision to identify Streeting as someone coveting the top job was especially incendiary.

Even by the incendiary campaigns California is used to, Proposition 50 has been notable for its sharp attacks to cut through the dense, esoteric issue of congressional redistricting.

And then, predictably, an incendiary act kicks the story into overdrive: Footage of someone burning the Ten Commandments surfaces on social media.