More than half of the people who come to the Battersea Law Centre in south London, for example, are on benefits, and some have mental-health problems.

Before the law was proposed, about 7% of board members in Norway were female, according to the Centre for Corporate Diversity.

Because the operator controls with his wire or thread only this centre, the attached limbs are just what they should be... lifeless, pure pendulums, governed only by the law of gravity.