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The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]
lob28liberalapocalypsepdf
The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]
Historical notes on the four freedoms
[PDF file]: […] countries which compose it. The existence of a large trading area, characterised by an absence of barriers to the flow of factors, has long been believed by liberal economists to facilitate the most efficient allocation of resources within it. When that area comprises not one nation-state but a group of them, its creation is […]
Tittle-tattle
[PDF file]: […] – Sir Cyril Smith and Sir Jimmy Savile – will not. But for those who forget – or never knew – of their celebrity value to the Liberal Party of yesteryear, their juxtaposition on this February 1974 party election broadcast will fill in a little history.27 Useful to whom? The withdrawal of the LibDem […]
And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK
[PDF file]: […] certainly think so. Until very recently it was a political commonplace that the UK was the fifth largest economy in the world. David Cameron,1 Theresa May,2 various Liberal Democrat candidates3 and Nigel Farage,4 all stated that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world. In the Labour Party manifesto for the 2018 […]
Reporting Trump
[PDF file]: […] rise of a racist revanchist movement in the heartland on one side (merging with a distinctly upper-class college-bred “alt-right” racist movement), and the collapse of the neo- liberal consensus on the Democratic side’. And this ‘took place against the backdrop of a splintering and collapsing of the media landscape’. Trumps ‘bellicose pussy-grabbing vulgarity and […]
I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent
[PDF file]: […] leads instead to Pierce Langford III. Langford headed ‘the Wichita Falls, Texas group of investors’ for whom 14 Allbeury was also active (like Oliver Smedley) in the Liberal Party. He stood as the Liberal candidate in a Parliamentary by-election in Petersfield in 1960. See his Guardian obituary, 3 January 2006. 46 Summer 2010 Pierson […]
Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered
[PDF file]: […] which was simply mind-boggling in its enormous size. It arose not only because of the City’s laissez faire tradition and in-grained expertise, not only because of the liberal tax aspects, not only because one or two brilliant merchant bankers, notably Siegmund Warburg, saw the fabulous possibilities early on . . . but because the […]
Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State
[PDF file]: […] the process strengthening the rights of the individual in the face of State power. The third barred Catholics from the throne, which appears a good deal less liberal to contemporary generations than the first two parts; but to those who drafted it the measure was rooted in the conviction that Catholicism, absolutism and oppression […]