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Just as in September 2011, when Putin's return shocked into protest the Russians lulled by Medvedev's talk of modernisation, my friends and I are realising again how optimistic we had been.
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British society could do with modernisation, in my view.
He says: "The last thing Remploy needs is for me to come in and say: 'Hold on a minute, you've got this all wrong and you've got to go in a completely new direction.' Our challenge is to fulfil the aspirations of our modernisation plan, and my initial focus is on ensuring we do that".
While the End of History thus was essentially an argument about modernisation, some people have linked my thesis about the end of history to the foreign policy of President George Bush and American strategic hegemony.
"My top priority this year is modernisation of the market.
Free Wi-Fi in all libraries was one of the key proposals in William Sieghart's Government-commissioned report published last year into modernisation of the service, and I know at my local library it will boost visitors.
"Aspiration" has taken its place alongside "wealth creation" or "modernisation" as a trigger word – one that, as my colleague Rafael Behr wrote this week, instantly evokes the most despised aspects of the New Labour era: "The City, privatisation and war in the Middle East – prongs on the trident of demonic 'Blairism'".
However, to my mind Roy Jenkins' unique contribution to the modernisation of Britain lay not in his pro-Europeanism, where he was in plentiful company, but in his vision and plan for social reform, which would not have happened as it did without him.
"Some damp in lounge, property could benefit from modernisation, but there is potential... .. Coincidentally that was exactly the same as my art report from about 1983, but it turned out my art teacher was mad and he was carted away.
People I know are disillusioned with the system and want PR and don't believe in mainstream politics and I realise that although there is always room for improvement and modernisation, politics is always going to involve compromise and I feel those of my age who hold unrealistic ideological notions are wasting the opportunity many people across the world are denied.
Indeed, to the fury of your comrades you became a committed supporter of Neil Kinnock's modernisation of the party - describing the 1992 general election night as the 'saddest and most desperate in my political experience'.
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