Although he clearly believes that all the worlds a stage even when telling a television producer "I loathe the theatre" he is busy offering him sugar for his tea, like a scene from The Importance of Being Earnest it is never clear whether he sees himself as a leading man or more like T S Eliots ageing Prufrock: "one that will do/To swell a progress, start a scene or two,/.. at times, indeed, almost ridiculous;/Almost, at times, the Fool". There are moments, such as deciding to accompany a hobbling Madonna to the launch of Tina Browns Talk magazine, when he appears to be both.

"It is understandable ... that they would be looking at ways to put pressure on the United States and Europe, who are also not cooperating to the extent that they should to basically live up to the governance promises that have been made at both the IMF and the World Bank, especially given the incredible shifts and the relative strengths of the emerging economies versus the western economies," iPOLITICS quoted Paul Martin as saying.

When the head of the UN Refugee Commission calls the conflict "the calamity of the century", then Mr Miliband, inured to ranters and egg-throwers, should heed the quiet voices. The four abstainers in last weeks vote, and others expressing unease, are not rent-a-rebels but reflective naysayers whose consciences forbade their acquiescence. As one dissenter told me: "This has been a bloody awful week for all of us." While the leader and some close advisers agonise, more doubts emerge. As Ben Bradshaw MP rightly ask

The ministry said it would conduct an anti-subsidy and anti-dumping investigation of European wine but gave no details of how Beijing believed exports were being subsidized.

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