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Since the rise of Thatcherism and Reaganism in the 1980s, and their poisonous economic and social philosophy, all that once was considered as vices, became virtues: greed, selfishness, individualism, arrogance, indifference, intolerance, and much more. These vices became the values of a crony, feral capitalism: Greed is Good and the hell with the rest.
However, it seems, as shown in a new study, that times are changing. “Most people now look on unethical money as tainted, research has suggested, in a reversal of the stereotypical 1980s theory that "greed was good".- Details
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The decision to acknowledge Lady Thatcher, but not Clement Attlee, makes the Queen appear partisan and is out of kilter with the impartiality of the modern monarchy
“So the question arises: what’s so special about Maggie Thatcher? Defenders of next week’s funeral arrangements say that she was a “transformational” prime minister. This is true. But so was Clement Attlee, who introduced the welfare system and the National Health Service, thus fundamentally changing the connection between state and individual. Yet the Queen did not attend Mr Attlee’s funeral, a quiet affair in Temple Church near Westminster. According to a 1967 report in Time magazine, “all the trappings of power were absent last week at the funeral of Earl Attlee … there were no honour guards or artillery caissons, no press or television, no crush of spectators. Only 150 friends and relatives gathered for a brief Anglican ceremony in honour of the man who had shaped the political destiny of post-war Britain.”
The decision to acknowledge Lady Thatcher, but not Attlee, makes the Queen appear partisan and is totally out of kilter with the traditional impartiality of the modern British monarchy.”
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And see further on the Great Clement Attlee:
The Spirit of '45: When Britons Chose the Common Good
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Read and watch this memorable speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday 10 April 2013
She said the former Prime Minister had wrecked vast swathes of the country.
The Oscar-winning actress, loudly jeered by Tory MPs, said: “When I made my maiden speech a little over two decades ago, Margaret Thatcher had been elevated to the other place but Thatcherism was still wreaking, as it had wreaked for the previous decade - the most heinous, social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country, upon my constituency and my constituents.- A moving and telling account of Thatcher and Thatcherism
- Thatcherism- the poisonous ideology that became the global norm
- Margaret Thatcher: A Reflection
- In Search of Virtue in Europe: The Tragic Consequences of the Value-free, Nonvirtous Leadership
- In Pursuit of Fairness and Responsibilty for the “Top and the Bottom” in today’s Value-free Britain