Many newspapers are run by political parties or individual politicians, so coverage is often slanted.

The bill was supported by all parties, although individual politicians have criticised the legislation.

Nearly 230 groups or individual politicians have registered, with some of those having banded together into 19 coalitions.

At other times a Deputy was appointed merely to enhance an individual politician's standing within the government.

But in his view, the alliance against Baghdad is one of individual politicians, not governments.

There is no cost to the individual politicians who continue to resist the all but inevitable.

"It's pretty difficult to get individual politicians, in particular, to subordinate their own egos to group activity," he said.

Clout is what they crave and many think tanks become associated with individual politicians.

It is not just a few individual politicians or a number of political groups that are saying that.

One reason is the strength of the whip system, political parties and the civil service, in comparison to individual politicians.