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Tony Blair — remember him? — was better at diagnosis than cure. ‘I think most <br /> people would say that in virtually every aspect of their life things are better than they were 30 or 40 years ago,’ he told the Sunday Telegraph in November 2005.

issue 01 September 2007

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