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The economy is coughing, spluttering and wheezing – "the sickness of stagnation and decline" as Sir Keir Starmer puts it -- and the government's critics - including, privately, some of its own senior ministers - reflect now that their doomy and gloomy language early on did not help, and perhaps made things worse.

Despite making his name with doomy dystopian electropop, he stubbornly treated the audience to a heaping portion of late-period stuff: grinding industrial rock from a phase when he appeared to be following the lead of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

“There’s certainly plenty of things to be doomy about,” Nye says.

The outside world was chaos, collapse and deprivation, but the hexagonal pieces of a board game called Catan imposed a geometric peace on a doomy evening, if only for an hour at a time, with a glass of cab sauv and three covid-bubbled friends.

Set across the course of several doomy days in Cole’s life, the film sticks uncomfortably close to him as he stumbles through a swirl of personal drama, promotional appearances, fan adulation and decadent indulgence, interrupted by the occasional jolt of actual creativity.