As Cyclacel has also recently found, this is an expensively litigious business in an expensively litigious country.

BBC: Letter from America: Buy and cell

It is said that Mr Cameron an expensively educated sort with aristocratic in-laws acts as if born to rule.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

But his ambitious plans for Chelsea Village, an expensively assembled hotel and shopping complex, helped to saddle the club with large debts.

BBC: Chelsea players

However, theirs is also an expensively assembled squad with enough talent to hurt the best of sides - and in an eight-minute spell they ruthlessly exposed City's fallibility.

BBC: Man City 4-3 Sunderland

It would be easy to cast Mr Clegg as a younger, Lib Dem version of Tony Blair: an expensively educated, cosmopolitan smoothie to the right of his party.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

He backed an overdue scheme to place more emphasis on rehabilitating criminals and less on expensively locking them up until the tabloids objected and he took fright.

ECONOMIST: British politics