Pragmatism, in today's Britain, is all.
Not that Britain is the worst offender.
waterstone's, like New Labour, is emblematic of a changing Britain.
It would be idiotic to claim that Britain is perfect.
Red squirrels are now very rare in Britain.
Short skirts are no longer in vogue in Britain.
The Chunnel would greatly improve transport links between Britain and the Continent.
Central Banks in Australia and Britain gave up some or all of their supervisory roles.
If it is built, it will connect Britain to Europe for the first time in history.
But a surprising proportion of manufacturing firms in Britain are nothing like that.
By the end of 1991 there were 12 CTCs around Britain.
Little is known about how the mummy came to Britain but it is believed to have been excavated from a cemetery at Deir-el-Bahri, Thebes, then transported to Britain.
Lough Neagh is the largest lake in Britain which is located in Northern Ireland. (396 square kilometers).
Napoleon never lost sight of his goal, because Britain represented the last substantial impediment to his control of Europe.
Some pages contained references to the break-up of the Beatles, which dominated headlines in Britain that year.
Although America leads the world in attracting foreign students to its campuses, Britain and Australia are not far behind.
A recent Australian study found cereal yields in India, Britain, and Australia are increasing by about 1% a year.
Yet Starbucks has marched successfully into Britain, France and Germany, and it has even found success in Vienna, the Austrian capital, which gave birth to the coffeehouse.
In Britain, given the size of its finance industry, housing boom and consumer debt, the balance-sheet adjustment will, if anything, be greater.
For though Japan's toughness drew praise from America, Britain and France, among others, an element of hyperbole in its reaction unsettled even some supporters.
His cliffhangers created such anticipation in people's minds that his American readership would wait at New York docks for the latest instalment to arrive by ship from Britain.
In Britain, which has been described as an "elective dictatorship", the next government, likely to be the Conservative party, will inherit a fiscal mess.
Speaking later in the day from the same podium, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain said, "I stand here to reaffirm the United Nations charter, not to tear it up."
Tullett Prebon, a brokerage, is offering its staff the chance to relocate out of Britain, noting that many had expressed concern about the “increased uncertainty of the future tax regime”.
Social mobility is slowing in many parts of the developed world, particularly Britain and America. But it is tantalising to see it fade in "new Europe", which once seemed so open and dynamic.
Once in Paris, the cooing couple get two nights in the city of love and a trip round the Louvre museum before a private jet back to Britain where a chauffeur awaits.
This is Eurostar, the passenger service on the high-speed train which passes under the waters of the English Channel through the Channel Tunnel, travelling between Great Britain and France.
In the whispering shell of the train carriages, only the sight of village and town lights speeding back past the train confirm how fast we are moving through the French countryside, where the high-speed rail system is more advanced than that in Britain.
At the simplest level, new eating habits provide vivid evidence: Thai food, a rarity in Britain even ten years ago, is available in many traditional pubs and bars as well as in470 restaurants throughout the country and on the shelves of all the big supermarket chains.
