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“White media has always conspired to spin the narrative and move the goalposts about Black films, Black filmmakers and their successes,” Obie writes.

Labour loyalists and spin doctors will emphasise what is true – the elections being fought at council level are "us fighting in the shires", as one of them said.

"We're just in the interest of finding out who else is here on the spinning ball of juice in the sky, you know, whizzing through the galaxy at millions of miles an hour."

While the rest of the group was washed clear and swept downstream, Andrea, Nicola and Morgan were sucked into the hydraulic jump, or spin, a recirculating flow similar to a washing machine.

Holding his phone out to show a caller back home his surroundings, a Brazilian priest spun on himself, laughing.