Health Minister Simon Burns said he was "speechless" by Ms Kendall's "sheer effrontery" given that the process had been started by Labour.

BBC: Government rejects hospital privatisation claims

Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery.

FORBES: Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst is dark when it comes to Facebook

Antonio Piazza, a regional PdL leader, is accused of slashing the tyres of a disabled driver who had the effrontery to use a parking bay, reserved for the disabled, in which the PdL dignitary liked to leave his Jaguar.

ECONOMIST: Italian politics