His predecessors as US owners – the Glazers at United, Hicks and Gillett followed by Henry at Liverpool, Randy Lerner at Aston Villa – all offer salutary lessons of one sort or another.
But watching Mr Cameron at work, offering his usual mix of personal anecdote, British good manners and cautious, low-ambition optimism, the day also offered salutary reminders that this strategy struggles in the face of anger, or prickliness, that is impervious to optimism.One final anecdote may help illustrate this.
The BBC series When I'm 65 has offered salutary and often depressing viewing of the limited options and poor quality of care on offer to many older people today; if this is to change, bold and visionary approaches are needed in government policy.
The plight of Britain's brilliant women cyclists offers a salutary example.
Thailand offers a salutary lesson: Even after more than two decades of democratic government the military can intervene when it feels its interests have been threatened.
William Dalrymple, a British historian of the great game and a master of genre, offers a salutary lesson about the dangers of meddling in Afghanistan.Silence: A Christian History.
Nevertheless, its portrayal of belligerent British immigration officials offers a salutary reminder of the work still to be done before Refugee Week achieves its aims.
The inevitable opposition they will face once in position offers a salutary insight into the present character of the Church of England.
Movies Big Chills The recent release of "A Dangerous Method" offers a salutary reminder of the director David Cronenberg's blend of the suave and the horrific, the grotesquely physical and the elaborately psychological.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The recent release of "A Dangerous Method" offers a salutary reminder of the director David Cronenberg's blend of the suave and the horrific, the grotesquely physical and the elaborately psychological.
