The prime minister will be unable to table his demands for the repatriation of powers before the next election because Clegg has dismissed this strategy as "a false promise wrapped in a union jack".
We have become suspicious: of their mawkish advertising, of their treatment of farmers, of their desperate bids to package up things that really don't need packaging up at all (I mean this literally and metaphorically, versions of "restaurant-style" dishes being every bit as phoney and wasteful as apples wrapped in too much plastic).
Its flamboyant facade divides opinion (it looks like an enormous present wrapped in gold Christmas paper) but the view over the city from the rooftop is fabulous.
An hour later, the car is gone and a corpse lies on a trolley wrapped in a blanket.
After 9/11 he sometimes wrapped up fervent support for Blair-Bush crusades in the modern parlance of liberal interventionism, and sometimes lapsed into an older discourse.
Erect in his seat in a north London pub, his slim 6ft 5in wrapped in layers of fitted menswear, Blake drinks a coffee and indulges in that great British pleasure: the meandering, recreational moan.
As she lies wrapped in white cotton in an iron cot sterilized with bleach, her swollen legs appear dislocated from her rattling body.
She takes Cilla Black, ungainly with her long legs coltishly splayed and drinking from a paper cup, all wrapped up in her limbs, and it's not in the slightest degree humiliating, but lovable.
Manchester United, meanwhile, have won 11 of their past 15 final-day matches, drawing two and losing just two, both when the league title was already wrapped up.
On the phone from New York, during a brief break from shooting series three of the show – "Standing here in a robe, drinking a cold, disgusting coffee with a gauze wrapped around me because we're doing a parody of Human Centipede," she says by way of scene-setting – the comedian agrees that there's an element of release in acting out these grotesques.
Accordingly, he wrapped his outburst of deadly rage in an Isis flag, and claimed he was acting on behalf of the caliphate.
