the British disease
British disease
the English disease
English disease

"British television has been an integral part of the British disease."

Good old British diseases not enough for kids these days, eh?'

One of the many British diseases is surly and unwelcoming service.

I fear it's part of a British disease.

Its anarchic labor relations were largely responsible for what became known in the rest of the world as "the British disease."

The new British disease - management extremism and militancy.

So what does our analysis tell us about the underlying, or basic causes of the so-called 'British disease'?

"As a society we have to make sure that this form of what we often call binge drinking doesn't become the new British disease."

At the time, the company seemed to personify the "British disease" - overmanning, lack of investment, and bad management.

It's called thinking for the long term instead of enriching your fat greedy face in the short term, the British disease.

Did Thatcher cause what was known universally as the 'British Disease'?

It is, it said, "an old British disease that lies behind much of our industrial decline into not-so-genteel poverty."

Short-termism became the British disease.

The British disease.

In a paper, "Has the United States Caught the British Disease?"

You may have heard of it, a British disease which immediately renders even the most serious of subjects to whimsy, irony and satire.

There is one obvious solution, and that is to infect these vast new market economies - as fast as possible - with the British disease.

Vandalism, a twentieth-century British disease.

A decade ago it became fashionable for economic gurus to worry about "the British disease," the apparent tendency of mature industrial economies to lose vigor.

'He tells us we are suffering from the British disease of self-deprecation - the British people's instinct for talking the country down.

There have been claims of a productivity miracle in British manufacturing and that the 'British disease' has been banished.

Its the "British Disease".

Well, you're suffering from, if I may put it that crudely, of a well-known British disease of a lack of self-regard in a sense.

The library, Mr. Alsop said, "gets away from the British disease of making high-tech architecture, with all the cables, glass and steel."

LEAD: 'They used, when I first came in, to talk about us in terms of the British disease.