Mr Purnell's speech was a riposte to the Tories, who had prescribed stronger medicine on January 8th.

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It was the ideal riposte to the early United dominance and Barca were suddenly playing with their usual swagger.

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But the resulting book is not just unfailingly readable: it is also a provocative, enlightening and welcome riposte to the cyber-utopian worldview.

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