The job went well, and his revival of the nearly bankrupt and scandal-plagued games gave him the reputation of a non-ideological and data-driven problem-solver.

NEWYORKER: Romney��s Dilemma

Practical problem-solving is better than ideological extremism.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

If you have a dispute that's creating a logjam that will not allow this extension to pass because of an ideological dispute, preventing 74, 000 people from working, you remove the problem.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The problem that any ardent Blairite must confront is that there are no ideological grounds for taking on Mr Brown: the policy differences that divide him from Mr Blair, although real, are too nuanced and subtle to provide any.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Another problem for the Islamists is that they, too, are prey to troubling ideological doubts.

ECONOMIST: Not just coercion, sham democracy too