1. Both the rhetoric of self-congratulation and self-flagellation have missed out how much Britain has changed since 1945.

2. "We're very important, " he says, abandoning self-flagellation.

3. In this way self-flagellation ravaged their feelings, so do not want to feel the fear experienced once.

4. They need not be engaged in self-flagellation to prove to you or anyone else that they are in the act of improving.

5. Acknowledging the sometimes harsh realities of our own history should not be cause for self-flagellation and blame.

6. I mention these mistakes not so much to beat up on myself -- I haven't found self-flagellation a useful investment technique -- as to illustrate an important investment lesson.

7. The more simple, the more harm done. In this war with people, I have not beat them, escape, self-flagellation is still a cat.