Polls conducted after the fall of the unlamented colonel do not show a conclusive uptick in the president's popularity.

ECONOMIST: French politics

Far from speaking softly, this Zionist upstart presumed to mimic the roar of Winston Churchill, the unlamented British imperialist.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

On the ground, Mr Barak was no better, and in some ways worse, than his unlamented predecessor and possible successor, Binyamin Netanyahu.

ECONOMIST: The Palestinians

Instead, the African Union is coming increasingly to resemble its discredited and unlamented predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity, a mutual-protection club for dodgy presidents.

ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe

This, she surmised, was what death meant to them: the shedding of the unlamented body and the release of the spirit to a higher, better life.

ECONOMIST: Obituary

He cites the precedent of Lionel Jospin, who demanded a renegotiation of the fiscal pact's unlamented predecessor, the stability and growth pact, when he became France's Socialist prime minister in 1997.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne