He added that they had failed to come up with answers to simple questions about the currency and armed forces of an independent Scotland, and accused them of attempting to "obfuscate and confuse" the issue.

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Mr Blair says he would be radical on welfare too, but so far has failed to come up with any coherent plan for reform or even to show any sign that he is thinking about one.

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The Italian revealed he tried to persuade Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes to come out of international retirement, but failed.

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But all of those goals have come in away games, and he has failed to win over the home support while Ipswich have languished in mid-table.

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Speaking via an interpreter, Mr al-Sweady said he searched the fields by torchlight, frantic with worry, after Hamid failed to come home.

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Does he feel that the United States and other nations of the world have failed when the goal was to try to come up with a treaty that actually had binding commitments, rather than setting up goals for those down the road?

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