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The Prime Minister has started a project to find five words that describe the country. Go on, have a...

The Prime Minister has started a project to find five words that describe the country. Go on, have a go - it's a bit of fun in between dealing with the valuations departments at a product provider (or, in my case, medical underwriters, but that's for another column). It's tempting to be rather negative when thinking of five words: inclusive, stakeholders, engagement, social engineering - all bits of New Labour's patronising management-speak for the way it runs the country. What about five more negative ones: England Football Team, Robbie Savage. Need I say more about the glorious game w...

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