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"...Beneath all this is the peculiar British combination of bragging and bewilderment, an air of expectations great but unmet and of unrealised specialness. It is hard to think of another country so keen to magnify its accomplishments (everything must be "the best in the world"), yet also to wallow in its failings; so deluded and yet so morbidly disappointed."

É engraçado como aquilo de que o Economist fala na coluna Bagehot desta semana relativamente a Inglaterra podia perfeitamente ser aplicável a este nosso cantinho.