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But in a ceaseless offensive onslaught in the opening two innings on Saturday, things seemed to suddenly, profoundly and perhaps permanently change.

It’s been striking to see how passive the party was in the face of this year’s onslaught, and how passive so much of it continues to be.

Saints slowly recovered from the onslaught with Smith moulding some shape into his reordered backline.

But the fate of Palestinian people and the war in Gaza, where the dead are piling up in recent days under an Israeli onslaught, appears to have received short shrift.

Gilbert largely glosses over the fact that the 2010s unleashed a veritable onslaught of female talent on the cultural world.