Woman in Gold is released in cinemas next month, but at its premiere in Berlin the Austrian reviewers were generous about its portrayal of a national reluctance to face the art crimes of the past, according to playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell, who wrote the screenplay.
The Society's two-year Commission on Taxation and Citizenship criticised Labour's reluctance to discuss taxation and proposed, among other reforms, an earmarked tax for the NHS.
But then, reluctance to learn from Europe is another symptom of the British disease.
It was "clear from the off" that the Tories wanted to hire him, despite his initial reluctance.
So did our reluctance, until late in the last parliament, to sufficiently illustrate that we took deficit reduction seriously.
The economy characteristic of those years informed everything about her – the way she dressed, her reserved speech, the pared-back working method, the attitude to equipment, the reluctance to talk about her work.
Kentucky senator Rand Paul, who is expected to announce his presidential bid on Tuesday, has expressed deep reluctance to intervene with military force abroad, while a candidate such as Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and brother of George W Bush, may be more ready to support a new military deployment in the Middle East.
He has explained his reluctance to name the people backing him by saying: "A lot of these investors are offshore trusts and individuals who didn't want their name in the press".
Their reluctance may be due to another belief: that to achieve change you need to give credit to others.
Qualities such as energy, enthusiasm, flair, imagination, analytical skills, intellectual curiosity and "a reluctance to accept things at face value", are also crucial, says Baker.
They have also learned the obvious lessons of 2007-08, when Gordon Brown's initial reluctance to concede things were as bad as they turned out proved a tactical mistake.
