Can Labour really sweep away the capping of council budgets and compulsory competitive tendering for local services, and still keep the public finances in order?

ECONOMIST: Local councils

And the owners of holiday estates, such as Skibo Castle, can apply for an order to keep the public away from their celebrity guests.

BBC: Croft - generic

According to a Washington Post report, a former German minister was informed by the former US ambassador that the US had made this mistake in kidnapping, and according to the report the ambassador had asked the former German minister to keep it quiet in order to prevent public knowledge of the CIA rendition program.

NPR: Rice Defends U.S. Policy During Stop in Germany

But it also suggests that the price of getting one's ideas into the public domain rapidly is a need to keep them continuously revised in order to avoid criticism, however moderately or immoderately expressed.

ECONOMIST: More on gamma-ray bursts

In a peculiarly American way, the cabin-fee issue has therefore turned into a sort of morality play in which these people argue that the government should keep their rents low in order to prevent something even worse: the prospect that public lands might become solely a province of the rich.

ECONOMIST: Cabins in the wilderness