Mr Brown is not yet a lame duck, but his hopes of leading anything more than a tail-end government look increasingly forlorn.

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The "long tail" of sites with few or no links leading to them is largely forgotten.

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Indeed, Formula One is increasingly made up of a trio of leading teams, a handful of middle-rankers, and a long tail of slower cars which somehow cling on, helped by the largesse from Mr Ecclestone.

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