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What football genius Pep Guardiola can teach Britain’s middling politicians

The outgoing Manchester City manager famously sought to ‘footballise’ lessons from politics. Britain’s power elite ought to do the reverse.

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Pep Guardiola’s genius is to view every crisis as an opportunity to forge a siege mentality.

Pep Guardiola’s genius is to view every crisis as an opportunity to forge a siege mentality.

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Viewed from Asia, you cannot help but feel deep sympathy for Britain as it muddles through this century, looking increasingly ungovernable.

This is the home of Westminster politics, the governance system we former British colonies – Singapore, Malaysia, India and others – inherited and adapted to suit our local conditions.

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