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“... Seventies’. The term was further defined, and given academic respectability, by the sociologist William Julius Wilson. Taking broadly the same groups, he characterised them as ‘that heterogeneous grouping of families and individuals who are outside the mainstream of the American occupational system’. Wilson argued that as the middle class and the ...”

“... at a crucial stage in British history. Mrs Thatcher, as the account by Blackstone and Plowden suggests, had no such interest in a free currency of ideas. One of her earliest actions was to insist that the members of the Think Tank provide a list of all their outside contacts. This attitude was wholly at odds with the idea of the Think Tank as a ...”

“... were taking place. Following the fuel crisis in February 1947, the Government appointed Edwin Plowden as Chief Planning Officer and gave him a Central Economic Planning Staff. In September, following the convertibility crisis, Stafford Cripps was made Minister of Economic Affairs, and within two months had also become Chancellor. So the planning minister ...”

“... of ‘progressive’ education methods that rose in the 1960s and 1970s, propelled by the 1967 Plowden Report on primary education, which held that ‘“finding out” has proved to be better for children than “being told”,’ and that the most successful schools had dissolved the distinction between ‘work’ and ‘play’. It recommended ...”

“... could have produced any better or more effective public servants than Oliver Franks, Edwin Plowden, Robert Hall, Edward Bridges, Alec Cairncross, Edward Hall-Patch, Richard Hopkins and Roger Makins, to name only a few of the ‘mandarins’ who served the Labour Government so loyally. Therein lay the problem, however. They did what their Labour masters ...”

“... abandoned. One of​ the earliest cohort studies was conducted in the 1830s by the statistician William Farr, who, working from the Office of the Registrar General, compiled data on mortality figures for various demographic groups. He showed that nearly one in seven babies died within a year of being born, and in 1841 calculated the death rates in ...”