Tag Archives: short-term economics
Betrayal of Hopes
One of the saddest things about listening to the interview with the guy from Teeside on this morning’s Today programme on Radio 4 was hearing his history. He had a good standard of living working in the steel industry and then, when the Redcar steelworks closed, he’d had to downsize and take a much lower […]
Thatcher’s Legacy
If I had been old enough to vote in 1979, I would have voted Conservative. The country was on its knees economically, with the IMF loaning Britain tons of money, petrol rationing and power blackouts a recent memory, and strike after strike after strike. Maggie won after a period of industrial dispute called the Winter […]
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