The new bill will cosset the Christian right and the states' own monopolies, rather than protect the weak.

ECONOMIST: Gambling prohibition

Southerners are brought up in highly protective families which cosset their young, providing them with bedroom, pocket-money, connections and mamma's cooking and love often well into their 30s.

ECONOMIST: Why Italy��s southerners stay put

Vietnam cannot afford to provide services to the rural poor, or cope with a population influx in the cities, and cosset state-owned firms at the same time even during a boom.

ECONOMIST: Vietnam's economy

BA, bereft of its standard-bearer, is looking for ways to cosset passengers forced to spend seven hours in the air between New York and London, not three and a half.

ECONOMIST: Air travel