James Forsyth's column in this week's Spectator, which has been widely picked up, helps to frame the question, coming as it does after a steady trickle of reporting and commentary about the future leadership ambitions of Boris Johnson and George Osborne – and the role Michael Gove is reportedly playing of supporting the latter's and opposing the former's.
Amid a trickle of data reports like improved retail sales and declining credit card delinquency rates that reinforce the economic recovery story, Wednesday's latest figures on the housing market was a most welcome addition.
The endless trickle of reporting on health-related studies that claim to offer advice about how ordinary folks should live — what we should eat, how we should exercise, what's good for us, and what's bad for us — can become so confusing and downright contradictory that I can hardly blame people for throwing up their hands and swearing at the vagaries of science.
Only a trickle of the returns were reported, and the country's election commission is not expected to provide an official tabulation for at least a week.
The news, the latest in a slow trickle of reports describing child abduction and trafficking in China, swept through the tight communities of families — many of them in the New York area — who have adopted children from China.
In January this year, after a steady trickle of reports from Afghanistan that Taliban commanders were signing up to join Isis, the group officially announced its first outpost beyond the Arab world, in "Khorasan", an ancient name for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Following that, there has been a steady trickle of reports validating the elevated levels of serum HMGB1 in SLE, as in the latest two studies [ 1, 4].
The fake newspaper may explain why turnout in the first hours of the election was relatively light in Jaffna, with many polling places reporting only a trickle of voters.
The spokesman even pointed to a recent CNN report about a trickle of tourists entering the war-torn country and the construction of a luxury beach resort in the capital, Mogadishu. .
There have been virtually no reports of abductions, and a trickle of people are starting to return home.
