What have Barack Obama and Sam Allardyce got in common? That was the poser a few of us were musing over during a pre-lunch sharpener in the Press Bar earlier: (There were a few posers musing, too.) Answer: our fellow scribblers on the foreign and back pages failed spectacularly to predict the abrupt reversals for both this week. It is good to be back in the bosom of the press gallery (well, the bar, at least) after a two-week enforced absence. It is also good to eat decent food again, in the restaurants of SW1 and WC2, at our employers' expense. After all, we didn't come into the lobby to eat...
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