Lord Deben took issue with remarks Mr Osborne made in his speech at the Conservative party conference, when he said the UK should reduce emissions "no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries in Europe".

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As the new financial year progresses with continued chaos in the eurozone and recovery slower than predicted, there is no guarantee that the fiscal landscape will improve.

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For all its innovative sexiness, there was no flash, no zoom, and transferring pictures to your computer was slower than installing Windows.

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Second, no one man deserves all the blame for Labour being so much slower than the electorate to accept in the 1970s and 1980s that its policies of public ownership and high taxation had turned into an abject failure.

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Ability at them is no indicator of across-the-board play, and many grandmasters would be slower than the average problemist at spotting a composed mate-in-two.

ECONOMIST: Self-inflicted puzzles

Despite the benefits of devaluation, quantitative easing and a slower pace of deficit reduction, the U.K. recession has actually performed no better than Spain in the year to the end of March while its export performance has been worse.

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Aside from magnetic tape (which generally has a slower time to access information) there is no more cost effective storage device to keep all this content on than HDDs.

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