Dr Tim Aker

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

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@benoflan21 Worse, he’s channeling Biden.

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@DMcWilliams_UK Eerily similar

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Essential reading for our political class.

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The beginning of AJP Taylor’s ‘English History 1914–1945’ famously ‘goes hard’, as the internet puts it, but part of its brilliance is surely that it was written (or rather edited) to fit a single page.

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@AndyEdwardsR14C @UKLabour @labour_history @labourunionsuk @BrynHGriffiths @Rovers @Womans_Place_UK @BBCWomansHour You’ve no doubt seen this @richardmarcj?

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Or an alternative headline: “Individuals choose to donate to party of their choice”.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Crypto billionaires help Reform cement fundraising lead https://t.co/tLwLVWqeht

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An important fact 👇

[Reem Ibrahim @ReemAmirIbrahim]

The Conservatives presided over the highest tax burden since WW2.

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@echetus @edwest The new Inbetweeners looks terrible

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@DMcWilliams_UK It is in Starmer’s interests to sabotage the Labour Makerfield campaign. Surreal but his only hope of survival in office.

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Looking forward to this and, on the Saturday, I shall be speaking about my book: The First Brexiteer: the Diaries of Sir Neil Marten.

[The New Culture Forum @NewCultureForum]

Join us TOMORROW & SATURDAY for the 2nd annual NCF Literary Festival!

Tickets from £35 (non-Members)/ £25 (Members): https://t.co/4D8nwgYGzH

Speakers:
@AllisonPearson
@DavidBetz
@DominicFrisby
@Furedibyte
@DavidGHFrost
@NigelBiggar
@david_oldbolt
@tiffanyjenkins

& MANY more!

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

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‘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

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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.

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@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.

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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.

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@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