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Bit belated this but, apropos of Rebekah Brooks's appearance at the Leveson inquiry the other week, are Peter Pan collars now over?
So the Financial Times's splash is headlined Cameron builds on Right to Buy in effort to regain the edge from Miliband and its leading article, unimpressed with Labour's financial pledges, is headlined Miliband's belated vow to do his fiscal homework.
Mr McGuinness, who is also the education minister at Stormont, denied IRA disarmament was a belated response to the changed international climate towards terrorism after the September 11 attacks by on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
Yet the belated opportunity to turn professional last October, as part of a 20-woman squad preparing to play sevens at the Rio Olympics, was not a clearcut decision for a dedicated teacher.
The African Union was belated in responding but realised it was not only a Nigerian problem but a regional problem".
"Whenever I made speeches, I used to hear Eric growling behind me: 'Remember Alex – when Scotland goes, Liverpool's coming with you!'" Independence, he said, would offer northern England and Liverpool "a catalyst to secure real political power, to allow determination of the future, not the long wait for belated scraps from the Westminster table".
It seems that Consuelo's belated answer has come with the publication of a long-forgotten manuscript - now published as The Rose's Memoir - giving her view of the 13-year marriage.
This is somewhat belated, for which many apologies, but via the always-brilliant Jezebel.com come scans from the Dianetics and Scientology festive gift catalogue.
But the biggest change to Lee's circumstances has been his belated success.
A belated but entirely seasonal mention to a charity quiz night hosted by the pub landlord Al Murray in the runup to Christmas.
