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[…] all the major economies because we went all in on financialisation, a process that did not start with Brown. It started under the governments led by Margaret Thatcher. Brown then accelerated it and the over-extended and over-leveraged banks became far too big relative to the rest of the economy. To give a proper sense […]

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[…] all the major economies because we went all in on financialisation, a process that did not start with Brown. It started under the governments led by Margaret Thatcher. Brown then accelerated it and the over-extended and over-leveraged banks became far too big relative to the rest of the economy. To give a proper sense […]

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[…] all the major economies because we went all in on financialisation, a process that did not start with Brown. It started under the governments led by Margaret Thatcher. Brown then accelerated it and the over-extended and over-leveraged banks became far too big relative to the rest of the economy. To give a proper sense […]

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[…] all the major economies because we went all in on financialisation, a process that did not start with Brown. It started under the governments led by Margaret Thatcher. Brown then accelerated it and the over-extended and over-leveraged banks became far too big relative to the rest of the economy. To give a proper sense […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] academic learning and wealth creation’, so much so that ‘the country appears to be betraying its commitment – however distant – to meritocracy’. He actually argues that Thatcher, Major and Blair tried to squeeze the ‘rejuvenated aristocracy’ out of politics – which rather misses the point about their governments. Each of them which presided […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] British conservative movement. In some ways Thatcher’s children really are Rand’s offspring. It was Rand who first said ‘There is no such thing as society’,84 echoed by Thatcher in 1987. Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]

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[…] British conservative movement. In some ways Thatcher’s children really are Rand’s offspring. It was Rand who first said ‘There is no such thing as society’,84 echoed by Thatcher in 1987. Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . The police were a vital arm of the British state in the Eighties as bloody battles were fought against criminals, football hooligans and trade unionists. Mrs Thatcher needed the police to take on the miners. She was, and is, an icon to Tories like myself. It pains me to write this, but we […]

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[…] British conservative movement. In some ways Thatcher’s children really are Rand’s offspring. It was Rand who first said ‘There is no such thing as society’,48 echoed by Thatcher in 1987.49 Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]

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[…] British conservative movement. In some ways Thatcher’s children really are Rand’s offspring. It was Rand who first said ‘There is no such thing as society’,33 echoed by Thatcher in 1987.34 Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]

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