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A Thatcherite horror sequel
Our Guest writer is former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone Sequels can often be much worse than the original. You know how it goes; bit-part actors elevated to the main characters, same old script,...
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Mail masks Thatcher’s true legacy: Unions busted, hours extended,...
Yesterday’s Daily Mail celebrated the fruits of Thatcherism, with a headline that trumpeted: Thatcher’s legacy: UK ‘is the only nation working harder than in the 1980s’ It joyously declared: “Britain...
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Everything you know about the ‘Thatcherite consensus’ is wrong
Stewart Lansley is the author of “The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy”, out today A new report shows that on all counts bar inflation, ‘managed capitalism’ had a...
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Richard Murphy’s new book is itself courageous, and ambitious as well
Carl Packman reviews Richard Murphy’s new book, The Courageous State, published by Searching Finance last month In 2008, Britain experienced a financial crisis of epic proportions – unmatched since...
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‘We’re all Thatcherites now’? Sorry Dave, we’re not
Margaret Thatcher is gone but Thatcherism, it is said, lives on. Yesterday David Cameron even went so far as to say that we are “all Thatcherites now”. It’s not only David Cameron who thinks so,...
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The Thatcherite legacy is a paradoxical Conservative Party
Mitya Pearson is studying for a Masters in Politics & Contemporary History at King’s College London. Recent figures from the Bank of England show the most rapid annual increase in consumer credit...
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