In the final village we stopped in before starting our ascent, an elderly lady mistook our small convoy of white four-by-four vehicles for those of a development agency.

FORBES: Iraq - but not as you know it.

The upper echelon of the pop-music touring business is, like Silicon Valley, dominated by a small number of enterprises: Lady Gaga, Madonna, U2, Jon Bon Jovi, Jay-Z, and a very few others.

NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

We trudged through the snow to a small shop, The Chocolate Lady, where Paul, the proprietor, and his daughter served us homemade toffee and truffles, though the chocolate soup probably would have been a better decision.

BBC: The Bureau of Unknown Destinations

The pope's arrival is meant to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Our Lady of Charity, a small statue of Mary said to be discovered by Cuban fishermen.

WSJ: In Cuba, Pope Urges New Cooperation

At present lady Thatcher is commemorated with a small plaque outside her father's former grocery shop in Grantham and with some exhibits inside Grantham Museum.

BBC: Grantham Labour group calls for Thatcher statue in town

The approach of Lady Warnock, Mr Cameron and "a small group of parents" has been criticised in press adverts by organisations and individuals concerned with special educational needs.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Tories set up special needs probe

While Lady Thatcher was more in tune with the tax-cutting, small-government traditions of Gladstonian liberalism, Mr Blair draws upon the more interventionist traditions and social reforms of the great reforming Liberal governments of 1906-14.

ECONOMIST: The Labour Party

An engineer from Tehran (Behzad Dourani) arrives in a small mountain village in order to record some sort of ritual that depends on the death of an old lady.

NEWYORKER: The Wind Will Carry Us