To counter the glut of 2:1s, Mr Thomas recommends sub-dividing that class of degree even further, to recognise the "very good but not quite first-class" students.

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The year the oldest Ohio-class ballistic-missile sub completes its final nuclear patrol is now expected to be 2027, which sounds a long way off until you realize it takes nearly two decades to design, develop, build and test the lead ship in a successor class.

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And within this class I am specifically refering to the sub-category known as hustlers today.

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Meanwhile the U.K. which by then may be stuck with the biggest government deficit in Europe while remaining one of the most indebted economies in the world risks being doomed to years of sub-par growth, held back by households unable to spend, businesses unwilling to invest and a complacent political class too anaesthetized by central bank money-printing to give the patient the treatment it needs.

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