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Quote by Neil Ascherson
For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to per

For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are…businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but — ominously — fewer and fewer people laugh at it. – Neil Ascherson

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