Paul Hirst is Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck College, University of London. His After Thatcher was published by Collins earlier this year.
If you want to see the cutting edge of Thatcherism, go to Basingstoke. There, as we learn in Paul Hirst’s After Thatcher, the local council (careful, no doubt, with its ratepayers’...
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