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Thatcherism, with its stress on enterprise, business and wealth creation, has repeatedly clashed with informed, intellectual, or ‘establishment’ thinking. The Church of England bishops and many clergy, the Universities and school teachers, parts of the senior civil service and the BBC have all come into conflict — in some cases protracted and bitter — with Thatcherite concepts and policy initiatives. This uneasy and unsatisfactory relationship is not particularly surprising. Intellectual and opinion-forming thinking in the post-war era was centrist or centre-left in political direction. Thatcherism has attacked not only overt Socialism but consensus centre opinion.
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Holmes, M. (1989). The Limits of Thatcherism and Intellectual Opinion. In: Thatcherism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20052-8_8
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