The Mayfair Set, E2: Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V.
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Published 2012-09-04
The programme looks at how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith and Tiny Rowland, all members of London's Clermont Club in the 1960s. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000.
Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V.
The rise of Jim Slater who became famous for writing an investment column in The Sunday Telegraph under the nom de plume of The Capitalist.
All Comments (14)
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✨Briiiiiillliiant! Thank you for uploading 🤍
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The directness of Ted Heath’s statements is in marked contrast to the evasions of modern politicians.
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The near total destruction was paid back by Jim Slater's salient advice on strategies for the game of Monopoly. See the end of "The Mayfair Set Part 4 - Twilight Of The Dogs". Thank you Jim!!! ;)
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Ted Heath used the very same rhetoric that modern politicians use today. He never came up with the Orwellian term "austerity" though.
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i enjoyed this. i particularly enjoyed the video and the accompanying sound.
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What a load of merchant bankers.
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the world is full of it.... people we are so such a way... the same pattern behavior i observe in a lot of people. for all these things that we the humans do, and are.
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I wonder how a person who sold shares on the open market may still suggest he "owns" the company. Eating cake and keeping it?
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Curtis is typical of the BBC tendency to regard all private businessmen as spivs.
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It's utter BS that UK productivity didn't grow much in the 70s, 80s and 90s. http://www.multpl.com/uk-real-gdp-per-capita this is real inflation adjusted GDP per capita.
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Psychopaths.
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Embarrassing
