Dr Tim Aker

Phd. Historian and Author. Academic Director @ThatcherCentre. Editor, Thatcherism Today. MEP 2014-9. Strategic Advisory and Consultancy.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

@GHWTowler That’s rather poetic, Gawain. Two birds, one stone.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

‘True neoliberalism has never been tried’

Now is a good a time as any.

[The Spectator @spectator]

Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word 'social' in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn't about due process; social democracies didn't safeguard freedom.

For those on the left, who can never have enough social-isms, there is a more toxic prefix. If you want to damn something, stick a 'neo' in front.

Nothing is quite as wicked as a neoconservative, but coming dangerously close is a neoliberal. Liberals were once generally supposed to be the squishiest of centrists. But listen to the men and women making the weather in British politics now, and you'd imagine that neoliberals were the horsemen of the apocalypse.

Andy Burnham has blamed '40 years of neoliberalism' for the problems faced by workers in Makerfield, and indeed beyond. The banking crisis, low growth, youth unemployment, decaying high streets: it was neoliberalism wot dunnit.

✍️ Michael Simmons

Article | https://t.co/2wNnTXKfxT

[The Spectator @spectator]

Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word 'social' in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn't about due process; social democracies didn't safeguard freedom.

For those on the left, who can never have enough social-isms, there is a more toxic prefix. If you want to damn something, stick a 'neo' in front.

Nothing is quite as wicked as a neoconservative, but coming dangerously close is a neoliberal. Liberals were once generally supposed to be the squishiest of centrists. But listen to the men and women making the weather in British politics now, and you'd imagine that neoliberals were the horsemen of the apocalypse.

Andy Burnham has blamed '40 years of neoliberalism' for the problems faced by workers in Makerfield, and indeed beyond. The banking crisis, low growth, youth unemployment, decaying high streets: it was neoliberalism wot dunnit.

✍️ Michael Simmons

Article | https://t.co/2wNnTXKfxT

[Dr Daniel Pitt @DanJTPitt]

My book the Conservative Party and the constitution will be published at the end of this month.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

@TheHonLady @DreyfusJames No he’s right, the 80s.

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@93vintagejones We don’t have it, but we sure as hell need it.

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@CitySamuel Roy Jenkins finally got his revenge then.

[Annabel Denham @AnnabelDenham1]

Another senior minister talking as if public spending has no cost at all.
1. They're not "free". They’re funded by the taxpayer.
2. Another hour at school, away from family, does not necessarily mean a "better day".
3. It's not 10m "easier commutes". Many will be siblings.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

@alysdenby @cityoflondon Loved him in Keeping Up Appearances

[Matthew Elliott @matthew_elliott]

A few weeks ago, @ChrisMasonBBC very kindly mentioned my new book, Ten Years On, on the BBC’s Newscast podcast. He also wrote some very kind words about the book, which appear on its front cover.

As we prepare for the 10th anniversary of the EU referendum, and with the UK’s relationship with the EU back in the headlines, do pre-order your own copy of Ten Years On through Amazon or via @BitebackPub. Out 23rd June.

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@richardmarcj @amolrajan @BBCr4today Thus begins the inflationary doom loop

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@richardmarcj @amolrajan @BBCr4today But in terms of higher prices that eats into the relative ‘gain’ of debt being inflated away.

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@jaglancy Margaret Thatcher

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

I have been posting and writing about the Henry Nowak tragedy for three weeks, and have nothing new to say. Except one thing. That box-ticking phrase from the female officer when the murderer denies having stabbed Henry.
“I know, but we have to check, don’t we?”
What we hear in those words is not just the madness of DEI, which has taught her automatically to believe the non-white assailant over the white victim. We hear, too, the obsession with procedure, the elevation of HR, the triumph of public-sector seminars over decency. A culture of compliance has displaced a culture of conscience.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

@JAHeale @meganmcelroyyy James Heale ‘winning here’

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

@KaneEmerson I think he would object to the term ‘free’. The something for nothing culture must end!

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

"By 59% to 32%, the public backs lower taxes, lighter regulation, and private sector growth over redistribution and wealth taxes, including a majority (55%) of Labour voters."

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

@truemagic68 If the polls stay the same, with the Conservatives in third, it will force the choice. Like Ukip were squeezed in 2015, so may the Tories in 2029 (or later this year!)

[Peter Just @exPremiers]

✍️🏻'During the years of the Blair constitutional revolution, Thatcher demonstrated her romantic and poetic side while arguing in favour of the British constitutional tradition and heritage.'

🚨 @DanJTPitt shows the nuance point in 'Thatcherism Today':
https://t.co/PCeVCPD4yE