Just in case you think that this is some English peculiarity there was a very similar case with Dow Jones in Australia.

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In their bones English ministers now simply do not think of Wales when framing laws and policy interventions.

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Why would anybody want to think that football should define in any way at all the new English sensibilities?

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"They dislike the arrogance of English football and they think we have failed to tame commercialism in our own sport, " he stated.

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Mr. MARASH: For me, it's an opportunity, I think, to join the most exciting experiment going on in television news - certainly in English - in the world today.

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Think of the mass immigration of rich and ambitious Englishmen to America in the 1960s, when English income tax rates on the rich approached 100%.

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In the knowledge of that, do we still think it is worth placing the future of English cricket under threat?

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When thinking of a romantic song, most think of something in Spanish (34%), followed by French (29%), English (17%) and then Italian (9%).

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To read the editorials, you'd think that the Vienna Boys Choir has been serenading Manchester United and Liverpool when they play each other in the English Premier League.

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"I think it's a tragically difficult situation, " adds Perry Glasser, a college English professor who lives in Haverhill, Mass.

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