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Heal the economy to mend the politics
May 27 2009, Richard

In 1982 it was a war in the South Atlantic. In 2009 it has been moats, manure and the flipping of houses. Different mechanism, same outcome: the economy has been taken off the front pages.

Unlike the liberation of the Falklands, this is not...

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