| 1 | This school of literature has since been on the wane. | |
| 2 | But that would put us in the role of Britain as the declining hegemon. | |
| 3 | This is a team that represents a failing state, and both the state and the team need help. | |
| 4 | The safe bet is a return to the status quo: comfortable decline in experienced hands. | |
| 5 | Instead he was a yeoman, not a peasant, knight or disposed Nobleman, and he wasn't even a social rebel. |