In the darkest hour of WWII, the public actually saw it as an image of defiance.

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It's always dawn after the darkest hour.

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And like the bigger planemakers it is ramping up its output to meet the demand: in 2005, the turboprop's darkest hour, ATR made just 15 of them.

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To the others it seemed that Mr Cameron was threatening to block a deal in the euro zone's darkest hour.

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With Joan Cusack and Bill Murray as bashful anti-Communists, Hank Azaria as Blitzstein, and best of all Cherry Jones as Hallie Flanagan, the smiling mainstay of the Federal Theatre in its darkest hour.

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In fact the Telegraph tells us that during the scandal RBS was in its darkest hour and had other priorities than corruption.

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"But we can say very loudly and very clearly that the very idea of targeting victims and their families in their darkest hour is shameful, sickening and cruel, " she said.

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Not a rally cry for recovery or retribution, he looks at the experience itself and reflects back to us the deep capacity for grace, empathy and courage in our darkest hour.

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