The story within the story that of Justines disastrous wedding and subsequent decline is superbly executed. Rarely has the disintegration of both an event and a personality been depicted with such agonising accuracy.

Emerson has spent most of his career in international banking, while McComb is a former director of 3i.

And I think they looked and thought, well, that's an unusual honor to receive from the President of the United States. And then the president began what I have called an apology tour, of going to various nations in the Middle East and criticizing America. I think they looked at that and saw weakness.
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But his central task was to find the light amid the unrelenting gloom. This he achieved by plundering the national storybook, with hints of Churchill and Henry V. The comforting notion of unflinching Britain taking on far greater forces - the Britain of Low's "very well then, alone" - may be a bit hackneyed. But for all that it remains true, and leadership sometimes requires us to be reminded of it.Underlying the platitudes and some rather delicious detail that is likely to emerge from the Prime Minister's appearance before Lord Justice Leveson today, there lurk a series of very profound points about the way Britain has been governed. These are covered with an intelligence, learning and moral passion that I have not seen elsewhere on the Open Democracy website, where there has been a classic exchange between Anthony Barnett and David Elstein.

Rescue workers reported seeing dozens more bodies inside the building, with troops ferrying them to a city mortuary in the back of pick-up trucks.