As Sir John made clear in his ground-breaking speech - the first in the 100-year history of ?the intelligence service - there is not shortage of Islamist terror groups - some of them even?include British citizens - who like nothing more than to carry out similar attacks. And officers and agents working for MI6, as the intelligence service is more popularly known, daily risk their lives to ensure their efforts are in vain.

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And so now, out of the blue, comes this promise regarding the Act of Settlement ??" and this time Gordon really means it, we're assured. It won't make any difference, however. Because, given the choice between the possibility of a Catholic monarch and the prospect of an utterly humiliated Gordon Brown, I know which option most Catholics would vote for.I've come across in which he accused the Conservatives of planning to ban Fridays. Here's the key passage:

Next Wednesday, Mr Osborne has a chance to address the issue in a Budget that he promises will open the next phase in his project of economic reconstruction. Last summer's effort was about rescuing Britain from what the Chancellor claims was an imminent sovereign debt crisis (although plenty argue that the risk was never as great as he made out). This one will be about growth. We have had the cuts, now it's time to get the economy moving again. The Budget is being trailed as a moment when the Chancellor pivots smoothly from one task to the next.