A "drip, drip" of further high-pay headlines is predicted by the HCA for 2014.
Less, because David Cameron should have let Mr Coulson go long ago and his departure started to feel inevitable after the prime minister sounded pretty half-hearted in his spokesman's defence a few days ago on BBC Radio 4. The last few months have seen a drip, drip of damaging revelations about sordid goings-on at the sordid tabloid newspaper that Mr Coulson once edited, the News of the World.
Perhaps a drip drip of further revelations will eventually dent Sinn Féin's appeal, but right now it is striking how resilient the party is proving to be.
Graham Simmonds, who stood down from the council at last year's local elections, said there had been a "drip, drip, drip" of bad news from the authority.
The site will provide a drip-drip of information "to generate excitement," in the words of a festival spokeswoman.
Failure to get to the truth would almost certainly result in a drip-drip of further revelations.
Mr. Levine, 69, once a workhorse of the baton, has been plagued by health problems since 2006, leading to a drip-drip of cancellations over recent years.
The death of Meredith Kercher was like something from a horror movie, and so, for 10 years, that's how it has been reported, in a drip-drip of headlines, innuendo and suggestions – "a sex game gone wrong", with Kercher cast as victim of a "satanic ritual" presided over by the "she-devil" Knox.
But rather than continue to suffer through a drip-drip of release of selected photographs broadcast by television or printed in newspapers and magazines, Mr. Rumsfeld said, "As far as I'm concerned, I'd be happy to release them all to the public and get it behind us".
That golden narrative, weakened and wobbled over the intervening years by a drip-drip of accusation, evidence and testimony, may now have been washed away forever.
Media leaks have spoiled the surprise somewhat — Ola has been obligated to report some of its funding to regulators in India, ensuring a drip-drip of news — but China's Tencent is a new backer and the lead investor of the round.
