At Majdac, the granny, Anica, sighs and tuts as she clears away the leftovers from a bounteous dinner.

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Britain does not have a technology-focused venture-capital industry anything like as bounteous as that which serves Silicon Valley.

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The climate is temperate, the air clean and the sea bounteous.

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But in the interests of ending a war that has crippled an otherwise beautiful and bounteous country, both sides will have to make some difficult sacrifices.

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But even if the party can distance itself from union militancy, it will be harder to dispel the broader notion that Labour only represents public-sector voters: the spending splurge that the party oversaw in office is often blamed for those workers' bounteous pay and perks.

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