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, […]
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, […]
[PDF file]: […] funding by the Road Haulage Association, then distantly threatened with nationalisation, is discussed. Best account is Hinton’s. Dorothy Crisp is the historical figure who most resembles Margaret Thatcher. 47 é é é 12 an an additional anticipated income of £260,000.’48 The pre-war tradition, discussed below, of newspapers reprinting anti-left briefings from Conservative Party groups […]
[PDF file]: […] celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s greatness and Heath is the ideal foil for this: the man the miners defeated contrasted with the woman who defeated the miners. It was Thatcher, after all, who began the neo-liberal reshaping of Britain. This was a wholly good thing because. as Bower argues, privatisation was to show that ‘public-owned industries […]
[PDF file]: […] in Sri Lanka but also on those who were living in exile in the United Kingdom. Regarding the Tamil Coordinating Committee operating from London at the time, Thatcher was to tell the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, ‘We keep a close eye on and shall continue to do so.’3 0 The Sri Lankan government […]
[PDF file]: […] began to rise sharply, the Treasury tried to persuade the Labour government to scrap exchange controls. This Labour refused to do; but they were abolished by the Thatcher government in 1980. However, despite a rush of capital out of the UK, the value of the pound continued to rise, making British exports uncompetitive and […]
[PDF file]: […] when Ken said it. Ken may have come from the world of the Trot groupescules,17 but he understood British political economy.18 For a political leader, like Mrs Thatcher, acknowledging error and changing minds is a peculiar problem. A leader attracts followers, or builds a coalition of support, based on two things: policies and prospects […]
[…] in the 1980s, either allowing domestic manufacturing to relocate abroad or failing to create conditions at home for it to prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there […]
[…] in the 1980s, either allowing domestic manufacturing to relocate abroad or failing to create conditions at home for it to prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there […]
[…] in the 1980s, either allowing domestic manufacturing to relocate abroad or failing to create conditions at home for it to prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there […]
