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When several things go wrong at once, we rarely consider that it may be a coincidence

Matthew Parris offers Another Voice

issue 19 June 2010
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I turned to this week’s press coverage of the latest pre-Budget economic forecasts only after a punishing battle with my motorcar. A morning’s home car mechanics left me bruised, cut, frustrated and covered in diesel, but — as it turned out — philosophically refreshed for the debate about Britain’s economic future.

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