One piece of "news" in today's speech - though it is not, strictly, a surprise - is that Mr Osborne is accepting the Tyrie Commission's suggestion, to "electrify" the new ring-fence between banks' risky, investment banking-type activities and their retail operations.
The government published a draft Coroners Bill two years ago which stressed the importance of inquests being held in public, but it was not included in the Queen's Speech.
The gag order on the case until last Thursday was issued by the court at the Shin Bet's request, not because it wished to stifle free speech, but because authorities wanted to give Blau more time to agree to return the documents he still holds illegally.
Mr Brown's speech was not bad, but it was not good enough to secure what he sought.
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So this week it is worth listening not just to David Cameron's speech but also to the words coming from Berlin.
Now, I think it's very important to understand that one speech is not going to solve all the problems in the Middle East.
Although the White House said Mr Obama's address was not a campaign speech, it follows critical remarks about his foreign policy from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
It might just turn out that Mr Obama's speech is not the one remembered from this night.
Obviously, you can do all kinds of speech synthesis in software, but it's just not as much fun.
The timing of these words -- only a few days after the launch of Zune -- would be the most surprising aspect of his speech were it not for Gates' later musings on Microsoft's aim with the Zune.
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The real reason he's not delivering his usual keynote speech could be simpler than that, however: It could be that Apple has nothing "insanely great" to demo this year.
While the newspaper mockery is not of a genuine speech impediment, for some there's a sense that it might encourage that type of behaviour.
In his speech, Mr Carney said it might make more sense in today's circumstances to target not the growth of prices (inflation) but the growth in the cash value of economic output: nominal GDP.
Mr Denham's words follow a speech by Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier this month in which he said it was "not racist" to talk about immigration.
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The first was much in evidence in the chancellor's speech: borrowing will fall, not rise, this year, despite almost universal forecasts that it would go up.
Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to use his keynote conference speech on Wednesday to mount a sustained attack on Mr Miliband's Labour Party, although it is not known if he will directly address the opposition leader's attempt to cast himself as the new Disraeli.
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