The authors urge Prime Minister Cameron to reverse this disastrous policy, but the odds of that happening are very slight.

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The situation now is, in a way, the reverse: David Cameron, the current Tory leader and odds-on favourite to win the next election, has agreed to the debate, as has Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats.

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The NFL should reverse this, stage a lottery among the 10 worst teams, but give the greatest odds to the least weak of the ten teams.

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