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Yet they all get a pass – even Michael Gove, jogging beside his security detail with the look of a man deliquescing from the inside, gets no more than a raised eyebrow.

It looms over the rolling controversies over public monuments, which solidify history in metal or stone, then deliquesce into pixels on Google Street View.

That was sitting out there, in a state of just deliquescing.

Wouldn’t it be nice to spend 10 days deliquescing at a spa named Tranquillum House, which sounds like a flower crossed with a state of bliss?

Some have recognizable faces, even painted ones; others appear to be deliquescing into formlessness, their arms and torsos stuck together like tallow.