Adam Curtis – The Mayfair Set (1) Who Pays Wins + (2) Entrepreneur Spelt SPIV + (3) Destroy the Technostructure + (4) Twilight of the Dogs (1999)

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The Mayfair Set

The Mayfair Set, subtitled Four Stories about the Rise of Business and the Decline of Political Power, is A BBC television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It looks at Britain S decline as A World power, the invention of asset stripping in the 1970 S, and how buccaneer capitalists shaped the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, Sir James Goldsmith and Tiny Rowland – members of London S elite Clermont Club in the 1960 S. It won A BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000.

The Mayfair Set is A four part series that studies how capitalists overtly and surreptitiously came to prolifically shape governments during the 1980 S, epitomised by the Thatcher government in Britain at the time. But the corporate influence of political power doesn T simply arrive, it rather culminates after decades of engineering rooted in the economic collapse from the aftermath of World War II. This series focuses on the unreported and almost unseen approach that capitalists have taken since the 1940 S to gradually take control of the political systems of not only the United States and Britain, but elsewhere around the World – exemplified by the boom of globalisation.

The Mayfair Set (1) Who Pays Wins

Published on 31 mrt. 2020

The opening episode focuses on Colonel David Stirling and the birth of the global arms trade in the 1960 S.

The first part of the series examines how the British establishment turned to global arms dealing to sustain its economy after it saw the dwindling of its post War Empire. Also examined is how key business interests aligned to usurp and control political outcomes in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East to suit the economic circumstances in Britain – early examples of Plausible Deniability and covert operations. The story touches on The Clermont Club, one of the first London casinos, where businessmen such as James Goldsmith, Gianni Agnelli, Jim Slater, and Kerry Packer would meet with political figures, lords and dukes – very similar to the modern day Bilderberg Group – presumably to discuss such matters and align interests.

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The Mayfair Set (2) Entrepreneur Spelt SPIV

Published on 20 mei 2016

The rise of accountant, game theorist and asset stripper Jim Slater, who became famous for writing an investment column in The Sunday Telegraph under the nom de plume of The Capitalist.

Citing the example of an accountant named Jim Slater in the 1960 S, this episode looks at the beginnings of how capitalists turned to predictive analysis to control the stock market, with great success, in turn burgeoning the idea and propagating it throughout the economy as A means of extending control not only over industry and finance, but over political systems too. Slater was one of the first in Britain to pioneer the corporate hostile takeover, A model which would become popularised with the capitalists to centralise and concentrate wealth and control in the years to come.

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The Mayfair Set (3) Destroy the Technostructure

Published on 20 mei 2016

This episode tells the story of how Sir James Goldsmith, through A series of corporate raids, became one of the world S richest men, and A victim of his own success.

Turning to the United States, the story continues with the rise of Ronald Reagan and the ushering in of the era of ‘The Markets.’ We see the introduction of the prevalence of bonds, rooted in the current day cycles of boom and bust. One example used to illustrate this is the junk bonds that funded the creation of casinos throughout Las Vegas which in turn fuelled prolific centralisation of wealth and the rewarding of greed with risk. This is also later explained with the interfacing of junk bonds with superannuation and pension funds. The story also pivots around James Goldsmith, A ‘financier’ and tycoon, and how he became one of the richest men in the World; also showing the elements of the use of the hostile takeover and the euphemism, “downsizing.”

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The Mayfair Set (4) Twilight of the Dogs

Published op 20 mei 2016

By the late 1980 S, the day of the buccaneering tycoon was over. Tiny Rowland, Sir James Goldsmith and Mohamed Al Fayed were the only ones left.

The era of ‘The Market’ had ushered in massive centralisation of wealth and political power. But as some of the capitalists are marginalised by the very forces they had unleashed, they seek to reassert themselves elsewhere. At the same time, Britain and other countries opened up their economies to the international market. They floated their currencies and removed exchange restrictions. This caused the political forces to become further marginalised too, and both groups would become more subservient to the economic system – and the increasingly smaller group of bankers and money managers wielding more power and the return of ever larger profits – more than ever before. This final episode also shows how political institutions were turned into businesses by these happenings, with the examples of lobbying, PR, and bribery.