Mental Pyrotechnics

This is Boris Johnson whose wacky plans for fireworks on the Big Ben clock in London failed, leaving Brits confused New Years Eve 2013.


"Somewhere in a remote recess of his brain mental pyrotechnics were at play;
a sort of intellectual pin-wheel sprouted senseless ideas and suggestions of senseless ideas."
from The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle (1906)