All this is warming up nicely, with Catherine under fierce internal-affairs scrutiny, Royce giving it great pink-eye in prison when told by an inept vicar of his mother's fate, and the ever-watchable Shirley Henderson turning up as one of those souls who fall, bless, for convicted women-haters.
OPEC meetings have often been contentious, daylong affairs with fierce divisions between rivals like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
It was the Minister Geoff Hoon, backed by the Prime Minister, who insisted Kelly should give evidence to the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs and face fierce questioning under the full glare of TV cameras.
Peston is ITV's star signing in an increasingly fierce competition over news and current affairs.
Fierce is fierce no matter what size.
Behind it lay a complicated political situation in Switzerland where the "Nazi gold affair" has become a subject for fierce debate.
Egypt's foreign minister accused Turkey of continually interfering in their internal affairs, after the Prime Minister voiced fierce criticism of Islamist President Morsi's removal on 3 July, describing it as an "unacceptable coup".
You wouldn't be able to tell, though — my father is a fierce opponent when it comes to talking global affairs and can find practical use for any piece of garbage.
That's true enough when it comes to fierce hostility to any criticism of Syria's domestic affairs and its support for the "resistance" in Lebanon and Palestine.
