Booster ignition: that was a crucial stage on Wednesday evening before Nasa's space rocket Artemis II lifted off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
They call Daniel Kretinsky the 'Czech Sphinx' but the nickname doesn't do him justice. Sphinxes - certainly the one in Egypt - do not gesticulate or jabber as much as Comrade Kretinsky.
Ninety-eight minutes it lasted. So said the kindly nurse who brought me out of a coma after Sir Keir Starmer's liaison committee hearing. But time might as well have stood still.
Owing to Sir Keir Starmer's non-answers, Prime Minister's Questions is now as pointless as the human coccyx, the pelvic bone on a whale, or a drying-out clinic in Mecca. It has become farcical.