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Seeing purple
Prosperity has turned Britain a strange new hue
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WITH a full range of colours* at its disposal for the first time, The Economist can now focus on a ubiquitous but unremarked feature of modern Britain: purple.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Seeing purple”
From the May 12th 2001 edition
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