Friday 8 October 2010

Tell them all to go and stew

One of the byways of Seventies politics was the Freddie Laker saga, one of proto-Thatcherism, established cartels, the emergence of the European aerospace industry to challenge the American giants, and of course, oil.

The saga is pithily summed up here by Mr. Burnel, giving me the excuse to shamelessly indulge my Stranglers-love.

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