The Mayfair Set - Episode 4: Twilight of the Dogs (Part 2/6) [Adam Curtis Documentary]

[Ropponmatsu2]

Al Fayed was evidently the right kind of spiv...Didn't own his own bedsheet factory, and unlike Rowland could pay in cash....And has been waiting for a British passport ever since.

[motty82]

Could somebody please tell me the name of the piece of music that begins at 1:13?

[amalmavani]

How ironic that Tiny R was stopped from buying Harrods because of questionable character, corruption etc.. and instead Al Fayed was allowed to buy it!

[dezmundo1251]

@amalmavani perhaps because al fayed had the ear of the right people and the politicians needed his influence more?

[postrealitysyndrome]

It seems the biggest problem with this "reconstruction of industry" is that nothing actually got rebuilt, only destroyed to redistribute wealth upwards.

[TheDavi82]

As always Adam Curtis' work is fascinating. But the Mayfair Set has even more resonance now when all the ideas of the political class from this period now lie in ruins.

[dezmundo1251]

@TheDavi82 but it seems the question now is what on earth is going to emerge out of the ruins of free-market capitalism?

[djsmurfie]

@TheDavi82 Except they aren't?

[DanHadan]

LOL--'Sheikh' Mohamed Fayed, the impostor who conned Papa Doc before feeling Haiti, as middle man between the political classes of Europe and the Middle East: that speaks volumes.