Meanwhile Lib Dem MPs commended Mr Cameron for changing his position the kind of praise he could have done without.

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The writer-director Cameron Crowe is attempting a modern screwball comedy the kind of thing that, sixty years ago, would have been a swiftly paced romantic farce but he has scaled the movie as an epic and turned his heroine into a font of New Age wisdom.

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The posh ones, namely Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne, are in one sense the most old-fashioned kind of Tories: men interested above all in power, and aware that ideology can be an encumbrance in its pursuit.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

It was even better when Mr Cameron appeared to respond in kind with a slight on Salt Lake City by saying "of course it is easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere".

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The first weekend of fixtures in this Four Nations would suggest Cameron Smith is being a little kind to England.

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Speaking to the BBC Radio 5 live, Mr Cameron would not be drawn on the contents of his impending speech or whether he would commit to some kind of referendum in his party's next election manifesto.

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