If Mr Blair can talk his chancellor round, and if he then manages his show of contrition more artfully than he managed last week's show of resolution, voters may well decide again that, for all Labour's mistakes, the Tories are not yet a credible alternative.

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In the meantime, there will be plenty of talk about winners and losers in the latest round of judicial smackdown.

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Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who met Mr Karunanidhi on Monday night to try talk him round, said there was no crisis and the "government is absolutely stable, it will stay in power".

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The puppet has done the round of talk shows, including Good Morning America and Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, courtesy of a cozy relationship with ABC parent Disney, whose Go.com Internet arm is an investor in Pets.com.

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Competition rules Britain was a main player, instituting the internal market, all that, so I'm pretty relaxed, let us proceed step-by-step and in the next round yes we will talk about what needs to be done because we are enlarging the Union.

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This will push Mr Sarkozy into hard talk on immigration, and keep open the possibility of a first-round shock.

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Ten years after the withdrawal and four years after the Second Lebanon War we again hear talk about an inevitable new round of war in the summer.

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And the stock market has surged up 12% just since its August low when talk of another round of quantitative easing began.

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