Recordar Arthur Seldon (5)

The New York Times:

Long before Mrs. Thatcher came to power in 1979 and attacked many decades of ever-increasing government power through privatization and her other free-market policies, intellectuals on the right were formulating novel approaches to education, health and other government services. So initially radical were their notions that The Independent, a London newspaper, said this week that they were regarded as "political crackpots."

Tony Blair, the current Labor Party prime minister, continued much of Mrs. Thatcher's free-market emphasis. She thanked the "lonely" academics on the 30th anniversary of the institute in 1987, saying, "They were right and they saved Britain."