Suddenly, Ukip, for all its barminess, appears to be back in the game.

However, she has used her forces for good and laid bare the barminess of fad diets.

Perhaps even she has begun to have second thoughts about the ballooning barminess of these proceedings.

But the barminess of the raisin bureaucracy has not escaped the justices.

But this is the barminess of contemporary Hollywood.

Worse, there's not a single decent laugh to be had: even the cast look baffled by the barminess of it.

That means the two quintessential components of barminess, the trumpet and the man in the silly hat, are out.

The barminess of rugby’s fevered grip?

A few months ago this would have been a surefire indication of my own barminess, and yet now it signifies only a cold-hearted and pragmatic sanity.

David Small tackles the universals - greed, evil, folly, peace and understanding - in a cleareyed, puckish celebration of personal integrity, eccentricity, even barminess.

A lackadaisical dive into backwoods barminess and masculine neuroses, this low-budget paean to indoor plumbing and rampant facial hair doesn’t unfold so much as unravel.

In the one on mental health, which seems to show that inequality leads to general barminess, if you take the US out of the comparison, then the correlation more or less disappears.

Vince Cable's business department has plans to make access to employment tribunals more difficult, cheered on by such friends of the worker as Boris Johnson, lately heard decrying their "barminess".

Some of this barminess still leaches out into his mayoral website where - in a reverse Salmond - he lambasts “a Scottish Chancellor and a Scottish Prime Minister” for being somehow anti-London.

His psychedelic heroes, Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson, were too truly gone to ever self-advertise so profusely in the press (and now in this book) such microscopic details of addled excess and sociopathic barminess.

Burton’s film should be as mad as a hatter — a work of exuberant and bold barminess, with the strangeness of a dream, the fever of delirium and the grand hallucinatory quality of a LSD trip — but it isn’t.

Surely, amid our finest efforts to replace the random with order - the elimination of opportunistic infections and the introduction of a Highway Code - we can make room for the unpredictability and delightful, infuriating barminess that is part of present-giving, as symbolised by my chocolate orange.