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  • The management replies: “” Almost All Decline is Relative.

    Matthew Yglesias » Almost All Decline is Relative 2010

  • That excruciatingly embarrassing group picture of the 1987 Bullingdon Club (Evelyn Waugh called it the "Bollinger" in Decline And Fall) featuring David, Boris et al, striking silly poses, is essentially a picture of tragic middle-class wish-fulfilment.

    Boris Johnson, David Cameron and Brideshead Revisited 2008

  • That excruciatingly embarrassing group picture of the 1987 Bullingdon Club (Evelyn Waugh called it the "Bollinger" in Decline And Fall) featuring David, Boris et al, striking silly poses, is essentially a picture of tragic middle-class wish-fulfilment.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Having already recalled Paul Pennyfeather, in Decline and Fall, tyrannized by the cranky and solipsistic Dr. Fagan, he now puts me very much in mind of Bertie Wooster when confronted by the simpering Madeleine Bassett.

    The Man of Feeling 2002

  • Having already recalled Paul Pennyfeather, in Decline and Fall, tyrannized by the cranky and solipsistic Dr. Fagan, he now puts me very much in mind of Bertie Wooster when confronted by the simpering Madeleine Bassett.

    The Man of Feeling 2002

  • Tech Blogs in Decline: A Daily Roundup: The Drama 2.0 Show

    Zombies Attack Time Warner Cable in SoCal 2009

  • Dating Sites in Decline at The Gong Show by Andrew Parker Says:

    Writing is on the wall. « The Paradigm Shift 2007

  • Decline is not only possible — it’s inevitable, and imminent, to the extent we don’t reorganize our society along ecologically rational lines.

    Quick Links Part Deux « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • Sometimes it is also referred to as the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

    Palin: No Second-Guessing Israel's "Security Efforts" 2009

  • The subtitle is revealing: A Study of Music in Decline.

    We can't all, and some of us don't Matthew Guerrieri 2007

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