It may sound less moral, but shouldn't we, wouldn't we be better off getting people like Gaddafi or Assad or whoever who it is and finding them a nice villa somewhere where they can live out their final years in tranquillity?

BBC: Transcript of Douglas Alexander interview

Other indicators suggest deflation isn't getting worse, even if it is slow to get much better.

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Others - like Wolfgang Munchau in Monday's FT - are sticking with the view that Greece is better off getting to a primary surplus before defaulting, so it wouldn't face an Argentina-style bout of further austerity as a result of losing access to international markets.

BBC: Greece: the default calculus