The challenge for Western firms and governments is how to help African citizens wheedle data out of their governments so as to hold them more to account.
Some clean-air campaigners question the mayor's commitment, arguing conspiratorially that he agreed to reinstate the pollution-charging scheme only after it became clear that British attempts to wheedle more time from the EC were not going well.
While the battle lines are being drawn, the scuttling little monster with the Peter Lorre wheedle leads Frodo and Sam toward a trap in order to steal the Ring before Frodo can finally return the damned thing to Mount Doom.