Speaking on the World at One on Thursday, Andrew Sentance, a former MPC member, stuck with his longstanding view, which is a mixture of (b) and (c): that the policy would do much for inflation, but not much for anything else.

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Two people fit inside comfortably, but there's not much room for anything else.

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The oil sands are located in a region which, until this resource began to be exploited, was thinly populated and not considered useful for agriculture or much of anything else.

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To be sure, Berlusconi's comeback is not entirely unexpected and is more about the implosion of, and dramatic loss of support for, the PdL (not to mention its dependence on Berlusconi for most of its funding) than anything else.

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No, not for any error or mistake by me, not because someone else has struck a better deal with the users or anything like that.

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