"After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society."

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[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.

— John Desmond Bernal