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

The Mayfair Set is a series of programmes produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC, first broadcast in the summer of 1999.

The programme looked at how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland, all members of The Clermont club in the 1960s. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000.

By the 80s, the day of the buccaneering tycoons was over. Tiny Rowland, James Goldsmith and Mohammed Al Fayed were the only ones who were not finished.

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[Mavrilon]

Politic has always be connected with money ,power and business. Anyone naive enough to believe otherwise, has been either living under a rock or is a new visitor to the Earth. Such hyprocity to fey suprise and shock that all of this developed during the Thatcher reign.

[kruger97]

@Mavrilon Seriously, your remarks are all the same. All rhetoric and outdated spiel about the greatness of the individual, the evils of government power, and the ability of laissez-faire Capitalism to enhance society. All of these outdated assumptions have been proved wrong by the current economic crisis.

[wetlazer]

Not sure what is going on in Britain today. I do believe that American politics have been transformed even further since this series has been made. The Right, as I observe it, is quite clearly owned by business and it has the power to 'market' their agenda to make it look as though they are attempting to make America better when in fact they are simply trying to switch money from one class to another class.

[malkooth]

@themicarsenal007 There is no recovery unless the pathology of scum like Goldsmith is taken into account.

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Politics was ALWAYS a business. To think otherwise is possible is criminally naive.This is why you keep governments small if you are smart.

[djsmurfie]

@kruger97 No they haven't.

[themicarsenal007]

@kruger97 Totally agree with u, mavrilon just because it has always existed it doesnt mean we should accept it as the ultimate form of government, yes over the last 100 years it has taken us far but if you think about how so many western countries have become bankrupt and for what reasons? mainly greed and the power of the market and now we will suffer cuts that i personally think will take a generation to recover from