Her policy was to reverse the trends in modern politics that were made possible by the trade unions being legalised.
But at the university in Fairbanks — where signs of northern warming include sinkholes from thawing permafrost around its Arctic research center — Dr. Eicken and other experts are having a hard time conceiving a situation that could reverse the trends.
But 2015 – when the countries of the world are due to come together to agree on a new global climate agreement, as well as a set of sustainable development goals – presents us with a unique opportunity to reverse the trends.
Initiatives like this cannot single-handedly reverse the trends already in motion but unless we come up with some innovative solutions, the grim quip about the pension crisis may well turn out to be a horribly accurate prediction.
So the game industry is keeping an eye on whether the new generation of machines from Sony and Microsoft — the leading console makers along with Nintendo — can reverse the trends for an extended period of time.
Even if the school's motives are sincere, rather than cynical – Eton's headmaster, Tony Little, is himself a bursary boy, whose father was a Heathrow security guard – giving a chance to a handful of non-privileged boys each year can hardly do much to reverse the trends in social mobility.
