“... about management in the 1960s, who was said to have coined the term ‘reprivatisation’. Nigel Lawson, a champion of privatisation, attributes the dropping of the ‘re-’ to a fellow Conservative, David Howell, one of the back-room Tory ideas men tinkering obscurely with economic models while Edward Heath and Harold Wilson squared off against ...”

“... status as an example of academic hubris and cack-handedness. ‘The timing was exquisite,’ Nigel Lawson wrote in his memoirs: almost from the day the letter appeared the leading economic indicators started to pick up and the Thatcher boom was underway. The recovery was hardly a ringing endorsement of monetarism. By reverting to the traditional ...”

“... scrutiny after buying the Telegraph. ‘I think the Barclay brothers want a quiet life,’ Dominic Lawson, editor of the Sunday Telegraph at the time of the takeover, once said, ‘but you should not own a newspaper if you do not want any aggravation. It is the wrong line of business.’ But the brothers, David in particular, seem to have been fascinated by ...”