George's parents never actually spell out that they think he's gay (it's even hinted at one point they think he's got HIV) but the old cliches/truths of self-loathing, estrangement and awkward acceptance are lovingly played out within their cosy suburbia.
The home secretary last hinted at her wish to see the introduction of pre-broadcast banning powers in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich two years ago, when Conservative MPs expressed strong criticism of a BBC Newsnight interview with the radical Islamist activist Anjem Choudary.
But we can and will rebuild | Tristram Hunt Miliband, who quit as an MP when his brother beat him to the Labour leadership in 2010, said he would not be returning to British politics for now, but hinted he might be more involved in discussions about the future of Labour now that he is finally free of the soap opera surrounding him and his brother.
O'Malley sparked a little more enthusiasm from the crowd of 250, with the kind of stirring, populist speech that hinted at comparisons he might want made with the current president.
Even before his election in a largely forgotten interview with the youth magazine Chelcheragh, then presidential hopeful Rouhani hinted that even those who don't observe the Islamic veil in the "desired way" can be good people.
He has hinted there may still be a story to tell about that and said in an interview with Lu Martín in El País in 2012, that his mindset momentarily changed, something slipped and it saddened him.
Pietersen's improbable hopes of reviving an impressive Test career which has brought him 23 hundreds were encouraged this month when the new England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves hinted that impressive first-class performances with a county could provide him with the pathway he needs.
Tony McNulty, a Home Office minister, dismissed Davis's campaign as a "complete circus, tinged with vanity with a bit of self-delusion" and hinted that the true motive lay in shadow cabinet divisions which had yet to be unearthed.
David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, presented his party leadership with a dilemma yesterday when he won a convincing mandate in his self-imposed "liberty" byelection but hinted he would make trouble on the backbenches when he returns to Westminster on Monday.
Putin proceeded to suggest that the charges were an attempt to thwart the re-election of Fifa president Sepp Blatter and hinted that they were related to Russia hosting the 2018 World Cup.
US secretary of state John Kerry, who has made it a personal mission to breathe life into the long-stalled peace talks between Palestine and Israel, hinted on Friday that the negotiations are on the brink of collapse and said the Obama administration would reasses its participation in the process.
