During the Thatcher years I was doing very nicely climbing the greasy corporate pole in publishing. The great majority of her policies worked very nicely for me personally (surely there can't be a me impersonally?), I should be an arch Thatcherite.
I AM NOT!
It was a time of mean-spirited nastiness to our fellow, but poorer, man. The crushing of the miners' strike was a display of power to subdue the unions and the death of the mining industry was a price Thatcher was prepared to pay and welcomed regardless of the human cost. How do I know? A friend of mine was a Cabinet aide at the time. He resigned.
One of my saddest memories is travelling in a lift with Margaret and Denis when I worked in the Express building and not being able to say a damned thing, to my shame I needed my job more than the satisfaction of
saying what I thought.
During the Thatcher years I was doing very nicely climbing the greasy corporate pole in publishing. The great majority of her policies worked very nicely for me personally (surely there can't be a me impersonally?), I should be an arch Thatcherite.
I AM NOT!
It was a time of mean-spirited nastiness to our fellow, but poorer, man. The crushing of the miners' strike was a display of power to subdue the unions and the death of the mining industry was a price Thatcher was prepared to pay and welcomed regardless of the human cost. How do I know? A friend of mine was a Cabinet aide at the time. He resigned.
One of my saddest memories is travelling in a lift with Margaret and Denis when I worked in the Express building and not being able to say a damned thing, to my shame I needed my job more than the satisfaction of
saying what I thought.
I will be having a bloody good drink tomorrow!