cross that line into shameless self-congratulation and bragging and you'll just turn people off in a major way. So how can you edge right up to that invisible boundary but not cross over it?

One must hope that the self-congratulation to be expected on the occasion of the euro’s 10th birthday celebrations does not blind European policymakers to the existential challenges that the ...

Following their election victory, this year’s conference will be clouded in an asthma-inducing smug of self congratulation. The Champagne has already been delivered by the case load and they are ...

Scotland and the UK both do a good line in self-congratulation in many areas, but this peaked during and after the Covid pandemic, when we told ourselves that we made decisive, clear and strict ...

It was the apogee of German fiscal self-congratulation. Evidence of underinvestment is not hard to find. Germany’s train system makes a mockery of the country’s reputation for punctuality.

But at the European Central Bank’s annual jamboree in Sintra, Portugal, this week, a touch of self-congratulation has been in the air. “I know it sounds a little bit arrogant,” confessed ...