The coalition acts as a pressure group, to encourage politicians to act on the issue of climate change.

Not many politicians either believe that, or act on it if they do.

For years, politicians have acted like hungry people in a free buffet line.

Look at how many politicians act as though ordinary people are not quite real.

While politicians act as if the world did not exist, somehow it still turns.

Wallace says he wishes British politicians had acted more like that.

Russia's politicians must themselves acknowledge the facts and act accordingly.

And it is an axiom of American politics that politicians rarely act until they have to.

"Both before and after the revolution, American politicians acted toward the world as if they were the masters," he said.

If today's politicians do not act to lower the cost of equity capital, they risk stalling the economy.