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by ben_w 888 days ago
I'm umming and erring on this one — "irrelevant" feels much too strong (even NK isn't "irrelevant"), but OTOH "becoming" implies a direction of travel rather than a state, and every impression I have is that the UK doesn't matter as much as it used to.
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This has been true since the early 1900s, so one’d need to show a markèd increase in the rate of derelervance
Yeah, that's fair.