The Lib Dems have declared in recent weeks that scrapping the 50p rate is "cloud cuckoo land" (that was Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander) and "impossible" (Vince Cable).

BBC: The UK's 50p rate: Tax or symbol?

This may sound like the stuff of cloud-cuckoo land, and none of it has been tested yet.

ECONOMIST: Aerobiology

This time, my goal was to move to New Zealand: the Land of the Long White Cloud.

BBC: How I quit my job to travel: The blogger

Colin Le Ray said the system allowed planes to land in lower visibility by giving guidance to pilots, particularly when the cloud base was low.

BBC: Fog 'causes disruption' at Guernsey Airport

Mr Le Ray said the system allowed planes to land in lower visibility by giving guidance to pilots, "particularly when the cloud base is low".

BBC: Fog 'causes disruption' at Guernsey Airport

Completely, he's living on cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that's a sustainable solution to the crisis.

BBC: Nick Clegg interview

Madrid's large airport, so far unaffected by the ash cloud, could handle extra flights with passengers then continuing their journey north by land.

ECONOMIST: Iceland's volcanic eruption

But officials said the flights also will serve as a partial replacement for one satellite: NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, known as ICESat.

CNN: NASA flights will study Antarctic ice changes

Like a bad remake of a Brothers Grimm fairytale, it seemed like the ugly sisters had gotten the message from the magic mirror that they were not the fairest in the land, and had decided to brew some potions, wave a few wands and declare themselves most attractive cloud IaaS platform.

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