What does DEM stand for?

Director Alex De Rakoff does better than he did in his catastrophic debut, The Calcium Kid, and the scenes where Blethyn and Davis are allowed to be a double act are surprisingly classy; but too much of the script seems to have been pieced together from discarded episodes of Minder, cliches are rife, and there's an amateurish deus ex machina ending that defies belief.

The entire event undoubtedly had a slight deus ex machina air about it, with Zatlers seen as an imposing figure at the right hand of Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, calling out for concrete deadlines for concrete tasks.

If only Capello had descended on the Football Association like a Mafiosi deus ex machina a few years earlier, when the received wisdom insisted that Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard could not play effectively (ha, ha, ha) in the same midfield.

They met at Deus Ex Machina in Parramatta Rd, Camperdown, with Bloom riding there on his new customised road bike turned hill climber, the Deus SR400, which cost him 20,000 dollars, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Mortimer was a total deus ex machina, dropped in to get Jenny's boss to respect her during her internship.

Micawber was saved by Dickens' deus ex machina, and Brown, son of the manse that he likes to remind us he is, is apparently hoping for similar divine intervention.

When the deus ex machina finally appeared, it was in the form of the public market itself.

Just as often an editorial board will carefully come to consensus around one candidate only to have the publisher swoop in, deus ex machina, to dictate the paper's formal support for another.