Baldrick himself might have been sceptical about the latest cunning plan which is to install Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister for long enough to form an escape committee and offer a General Election.

made a similar mistake in the 2000s in the course of the War on Terror, which relied on massive force and shunned the strategic cunning favored by many American diplomats, sowing instability throughout an already-fragile Middle East.

"Such a cunning and inferior man cannot be like my father.

Thankfully, it wasn't cunning enough to pounce on its prey at the weekend.

Alas, the peoples who are targeted in these bestial acts are folks who have been taught all their lives to 'love thy neighbours as thyself' and to 'pray for thy enemies.' These victims also learnt in their religious instruction classes and their religious service sessions that the Devil is full of cunning and would always find excuses to justify the evil that he does; in the same vein, too, people doing evil in the Devil's name would find ready reasons to justify their terror.

Although Machiavelli did not explicitly refer to metis (or cunning rationality), the fox's attribution as an essential feature of the prince's rationality (Machiavelli, 1998 [1515], XVIII) allows for an understanding of Machiavellian political rationality as metis.

LEE Westwood hopes to use "cunning and guile" to finally claim a first major title in the Open Championship.

Robinson's autobiography is titled No Cunning Plan: The Autobiography by Tony Robinson, which according to the publishers, will be 'warm, witty and just a little bit rude'.

This cunning plan could be coming your way any time soon!

Enter cunning: it is elpis, the tiny creature left behind in PandoraAEs box with the capability of absorbing what we anticipate and of morphing into what we wish it to be.

A "CUNNING and devious" man has been jailed for 12 years for raping a primary school girl - more than a decade after her claims were first investigated.