But then few have such concentrated suppliers as platinum, palladium and nickel - and Opec has been aware of its special power to influence the markets ever since 1973, when producers quadrupled world oil prices almost overnight.

BBC: Steel production

The posh ones, namely Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne, are in one sense the most old-fashioned kind of Tories: men interested above all in power, and aware that ideology can be an encumbrance in its pursuit.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

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