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Saying sorry for Britain's recession perhaps in more nuanced, less demotic terms might not feel fair to the prime minister.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
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They affect a demotic and businesslike style, with much use of bullet-points and other devices for the intellectually impaired.
ECONOMIST: Sense, nonsense and the global economy
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And he revelled in that most demotic and subversive music, jazz.
ECONOMIST: Eric Hobsbawm, historian, died on October 1st, aged 95
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But in its brutal structure of white power and black penury, apartheid also contained visceral drama, stories of humanity willing and waiting to break out in a demotic exuberance which in his township work Mr Fugard caught so well.
ECONOMIST: At 81, Peter Brook turns to Africa to keep himself young