Diary
W.G. Runciman: Reflections on Tawney, 4 August 1988
“... a set of ideological assumptions and constraints which are not significantly different under Thatcher from what they were under Asquith and Lloyd George. This may seem a curious observation to make in the aftermath of a Conservative Budget which has reduced the marginal rate of income tax for even the richest of the idle rich to 40 per cent while numbers ... ”