The decision to scrap the Manchester mega-casino, accompanied by the promise to find better ways of regenerating our decaying inner cities, was a clear rejection of the market economy as the solution to all the problems of growth and renewal.
There are many difficult, indeed uncomfortable questions about Labor's culture and regenerating it for the future.
Some of the broad coaching principles that have underlined Rodgers's method are ones that other managers would do well to follow if faced with regenerating a squad.
A generation of working-class Catholics who had faced death, fought back and been interned or imprisoned, emerged from the prisons and pariah status and are now regenerating places whose previous manufactured product was cannon fodder.
Now it is just me against an infinite army of regenerating grunts and the last few hunting quests.
Sir Richard Leese, credited with regenerating Manchester after the devastating IRA bomb of 1996, said he may run to be the city region's first elected mayor in 2017.
I'm regenerating again, and that's very exciting because it's a feeling I haven't had since I was in my 20s".
"After World War II, contemporary art was seen as a way of regenerating German society," says the sculptor, who speaks English with the cadence of a native German speaker.
To sell the scheme to a sceptical public, the authorities have garbed it in green, with an associated programme aimed at regenerating 150,000 acres of wetlands and marshes.
The patches are thousands of times the size of the earth, and the carpet is in constant flux, regenerating itself every 48 hours or so.The solar wind the constant breeze of charged particles that flows from the sun's surface, even when there are no storms carries these mis-shapen magnetic fields far into the solar system.
