Because the ECB has had one eye on the exit since the start of the crisis it has earned plaudits from those who think the Federal Reserve has been incautious.

ECONOMIST: Appraising the European Central Bank

The, that's right in essence, the Palace were enormously alarmed that, that you know, Sophie had sounded off in this incautious way that she had and so an arrangement was made that she would provide the News of the World with a startling, scorching interview which she did and all was fine.

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Well the talk of the Countess of Wessex' incautious remarks has been an enormous story two weekends running and as we saw just then last Sunday we had an authorised interview in the News of the World while other papers carried a string of embarrassing stories about what Sophie Rhys Jones was reputed to have told the undercover reporter.

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