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Deus ex machina.

It’s a term you’re probably familiar with. The literal translation is ‘God from the machine’. It’s a narrative device upon which a plot or problem is suddenly resolved by an action, object or event over which a character has no control.

Say, for example, you had to find ten thousand pounds to save an orphanage. Otherwise all the orphans would be put into some horrible detention centre run by Ainsley Harriott (Who is, I believe, potentially the most evil man in the world). You t...