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The writer added that Watson's recent declaratons of love marked a "change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was".

In Sacramento, Newsom and legislative Democrats are taking a similar tack, with a stubborn focus on affordability and the courage to stare down opposition, even in their own coalition.

"Mr Carney has taken quite a different tack, where he has really set the bar very high in terms of expectations," she said.

But that 1951 performance had a huge effect on how to transform folk music, popular music, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and what-not, twisted, transformed and tacked together.

Some MPs have piled pressure on the government to change tack on its proscription of Palestine Action after another weekend of mass arrests.