His books include a biography of wet Tory Rab Butler, a treatise on hire purchase in the market economy, numerous attacks on the welfare state, and a 1971 volume, Down with the Poor.
Here, as well as jokes about hummus and childcare, you'll find shrinking universities, attacks on the welfare state, youth unemployment – and, of course, Christmas, rolling around each year in a blizzard of grumbling and enchantment.
While the neo-libertarians favored comprehensive immigration reform, further reductions in taxes on the wealthy, and attacks on the welfare state, the Reformicons pointed out that restrictionist immigration policies might help American workers more, that cuts in tax rates were no longer crucial, and that many government programs should be reformed, not ended.
While Republican politicians as varied as Clare Boothe Luce and Jesse Helms publicly praised Orphan Annie for embodying rock-ribbed American values, liberal publications such as the New Republic denounced her attacks on the welfare state and celebration of capitalism as "fascism in the funnies".
Best known for his polemical writings against western institutions from the 1970s, which were easily caricatured by the right and were, equally, disdained by the left for their attacks on the welfare state, in the last 20 years of his life he became an officially forgotten, troublesome figure (like Noam Chomsky today in mainstream America).
Third, it is no coincidence that the current attacks on the welfare state and the public sector are accompanied by attempts to undermine core cultural and institutional freedoms – the jury system, the rights of trade unionists and minorities, and media freedom.
She recognized that any head-on attack on the welfare state would have destroyed the party's electability".
Labour accommodated rather than reversed her attack on the welfare state and left her employment legislation almost untouched.
First, the Thatcher/Reagan era attack on the welfare regulatory state has been questioned in the late 1990s and this has profound implications for the role of competition policy.
Mr Schröder's government has only a slim majority in parliament, and a sizeable SPD faction sees his reforms as an unwelcome attack on the welfare system.
