As well as the Telegraph allegedly purging proper coverage of HSBC's role in tax evasion from its pages because of advertising, we now know the Barclay brothers took a loan from this disreputable bank.
In past years, Latino families have outnumbered other patrons; this year, according to Mr Karant, the clientele is about 60% gringo.Tackling a place like this requires a considered strategy, or abandon coupled with bouts of Roman purging.
A federal law passed in 1819 spawned a network of boarding schools aimed at "civilising" Native Americans by purging their traditions, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs carried out this and related mandates for decades.
Turkey's generals have been doing that this week in purging the army's ranks of officers with views similar to those of the country's Islamist prime minister.
Purging suspect officials only to replace them with party placemen is not going to deliver these.
Back in 2004 and 2005 he had a lot of company, as Democrats—especially the bloggy variety traded theories that Republicans were hacking electronic voting machines, trashing mail-in ballots (shades of George Galloway) and purging African-Americans from the rolls.
His vision, however impractical, of purging Islam and establishing a single Islamic caliphate appealed to Muslims disgusted by the venality of their own elites.
Blair loyalists had despaired of purging the ranks of MEPs if the same seats were fought on the same system this time.
But Mali's president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, has prepared the ground since his election in August, quietly purging supporters of the junta and isolating their chief.
To get a sense of what it would look like had the Battle of Hastings gone the other way, a few writers have tried purging their English.
Zalmay Khalilzad, America's ambassador in Iraq, said on October 24th that the Iraqis had now laid out a "timetable" for key decisions: devising a system to share Iraq's oil wealth, amending the constitution, changing the agency in charge of purging former members of the ruling Baath Party into a body focused on reconciliation, and disbanding the militias.The Americans mean to keep them to it.
