In the former, Robert and Edward Skidelsky, a father-and-son pair of British academics, take as their text an essay written in 1930 by John Maynard Keynes.

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One of the most intriguing alternatives is Swiftkey an intelligent text prediction product from a small British company called Touchtype.

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And now the same thing could be about to happen to mobile-phone text messages, following the launch this week of Hotxt, a British start-up.

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The British government has declared that all such changes must be struck out of the constitutional text, or Britain will refuse to sign.

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