Sir Keith Joseph and the Market Economy - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

[@tubularbill]

Wonderful lectures. As an American I have learned much about the post war history of Great Britain. Thank you for posting.

[@nickjung7394]

Another excellent lecture. Clear, concise and interesting. Thank you

[@GreshamCollege]

Thanks! Delighted to hear that you're enjoying these lectures as much as we are. The audios will appear online soon. We hope that they will be on our website this week (by the 21st of June 2013), and we hope to kick-start the iTunes feed, after a glitch, next month (July 2013). Apologies for the delays!

[@coldwar45]

Great video and series by Professor Bogdanor as usual. I'll be looking forward to his next series of lectures.

[@coldwar45]

Awesome, looking forward to it. I was wondering what was up with the iTunes feed. Thanks for the reply.

[@paulgavin3603]

The most dangerous man in the world is the one who keeps asking awkward questions

[@galshaine2018]

Not being British, nor being an adult in the 70s or most of the 80s, I am left with the question : when removing the many and repeated references for Joseph's influence on Margaret Thatcher (including by herself), what makes Joseph such an influential politician in the long range? I wasn't convinced he was as influential as Powell or Benn. Certainly not as Beaven.

[@coldwar45]

Sorry for the double post, but will you be posting the audio for this lecture onto your website and/or iTunes for download? (and in the case of iTunes, the ones on Macleod, Jenkins, Powell and Benn, only the one on Bevan is available on iTunes.) Again, sorry for the double post, but fantastic lecture, can't thank you guys enough for posting these, I've learned a lot.

[@michaelmcphillips4079]

I wouldn't agree with saying that privatising the utilities i.e. the necessary social services like energy, water, and waste, was good in itself or even an economic good since it invited profitmaking from providing services without which great suffering and even illness results along with the extra costs of medical care and mental illness from stress and worry that those on low incomes are prey to. That programme created poverty and handed the wealthy an enormous unequal financial advantage in paying a much lower proportion of their income on the necessities of life, which all in society can't do without, than the poor were required to pay for them, which is very far from being what a fair society, to deserve the name, must provide especially when government must recognise everyone's common law right to equal treatment. Doing it also, when Britain became oil rich, excluded the poor from any gain from what they had as much ownership right to as society's wealthy had, made it all the more unworthy in a democracy..

[@guwest2]

classic anecdotes by the Prof. 'Keith Joseph smiles and a baby dies in a box on Beasley Street' John C. Clarke 'Beasley Street'.