very british

El Economist tiene el buen gusto de burlarse de sí mismo y postear su balance de fin del año 1928. ¿O deberíamos decir el mal gusto?:

...Apart from the coal-mining areas, the South of England may almost be said to have had a prosperous year. But looking at the situation, as a whole, one has to admit that the total volume of production, after starting on a rising curve, ended the year below the level at which it started. Having fully admitted the disappointments, we find some justification for regarding 1928 as a year of no small promise for the future. Quite possibly it will be remembered in history as a year in which the foundations of recovery were laboriously laid. It was a year of realisation and of facing facts (...) On the whole the new year 1929 has started under fairly favourable omens...