For their part, investors in convertible bonds got a small safety-net in the form of an interest payment, but also much of the upside of the shares.

ECONOMIST: Life after debt?

All three figures - the gross amount, the tax deducted (or tax credit) and the net cash received - need to be entered into the form.

BBC: John Whiting, tax partner, Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Low-income people would require some form of safety net protection.

FORBES: Policy Experts Agree: The U.S. System for Financing Long-Term Care is Crumbling

The income-transfer programmes link up to form a rudimentary safety net.

ECONOMIST: Social policy in Brazil

In the NET poll, taken while Tsipras was making his doomed attempt to form an anti-austerity government of the left, Syriza scored 27% - compared to its election showing of 17% - clearly demonstrating that it had created momentum as the pole of attraction for left voters wanting a showdown with the EU. Pasok was losing ground to both Syriza and the Dem Left.

BBC: Greece: Trying to understand Syriza

After all, Godwin points out, the Net has been around in one form or another for decades, and no libel suits of the Aide-v.

CNN: Character Assassination At Warp Speed