"The thing is we don't want or need managed decline in Liverpool any more, as if we ever did.
Using scenarios ranging from business-as-usual to strong longer-term managed decline in emissions, the climate model projections suggest the global mean surface temperature could rise by between 2.8°C and 5.4°C by the end of the 21st century.
He's quite a character, you know!" By the time they're leading Johnson up the staircase, they are wearing the silent screams of people who know a non-medicated solution is now off the table, who now regard the decades of managed decline in their once-great office as the halcyon years, and whose diary entries that night will read simply: "Suez on a zipwire".
There's little glory in managing decline, particularly in an industry in love with what's next.
For several decades of the queen's reign, British governments saw themselves in the business of "managing decline" — from empire and victory in World War II to the status of middling power.
Obama has been accused by Republicans of being in the business of "managing decline".
So deep rooted was the British problem - sometimes called the British disease - that as they said at the time: · first in the fifties we had managed decline; · then in the sixties we mismanaged decline; · then in the seventies we declined to manage.
I have also seen the managed decline he refers to in the industrial cities and smaller towns mentioned in his letter.
If Mr Miliband can convince the young and the old that he will be their champion, in deed as well as in word, then he will begin to show that he has the will, as well as the rhetoric, to rebuild a Britain whose current best hope appears, even in the eyes of optimistic citizens, to lie in managed decline.
A month ago, Drax, the UK's largest power station, seemed destined to become an exercise in managed decline.
