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Talk of renewal, then, as opposed to managed decline, is not so far-fetched.

"Managing decline is by no means inevitable if we act now.

"Managing decline is by no means inevitable if we act now," he told a radio conference this year.

In an ageing continent incrementally losing its global market share and political reach, managing decline is not a purely British phenomenon.

Margaret Thatcher's managed decline of Liverpool was complete.

In reality, running a TV channel, even if you're only managing its decline, is more difficult.

"The option of managed decline [of Liverpool] is one which we should not forget altogether," Howe wrote of a city that then literally smouldered with resentment.

Americans are looking for "a solid conservative who has the courage to stand up to the Washington establishment," he said, adding, "They are not sending somebody to Washington to manage decline; they are sending somebody to change it".

The new goal, here and seemingly everywhere, was managed decline.

A dovish Blairite, you might say he wanted to act over Syria, he bombed Libya, but overall, his ideas on foreign policy are managed decline of a dwindling power.

But surely the point is that in modern Britain, that's one rule for workers who have held onto a strong union, and the rest of us who have resigned ourselves to – if we're lucky – managed decline of our terms and conditions.