British Steel
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Search complete. 5 mentions across 4 episodes found for "British Steel".
Sep 29, 2026
Europe's pre-war madness & the reindustrialisation myth
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35:05Yanis VaroufakisHOST
I remember the Corby area.
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35:07Yanis VaroufakisHOST
in north of London, where the British Steel Corporation had a huge factory.
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35:13Yanis VaroufakisHOST
I still remember that.
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35:14Yanis VaroufakisHOST
And I remember when Thatcher closed it.
Cambridge Analytica: The Data Deception and the Web of Populism with Author Neil Sanders. (2022)
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34:36Neil SandersGUEST
How do I know this or why do I suspect this? Well, the Thatcher government based its policies on the Heritage Foundation's recommendations to privatise British industry as part of the Reaganomics drive and the special relationship that existed between Thatcher and Reagan.
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34:52Neil SandersGUEST
And so the test of the Heritage Foundation, British Aerospace, Cable & Wireless, Amersham International, National Freight, Brit Oil, Associated British Ports, Enterprise Oil, Jaguar, British Telecommunications, British Shipbuilders, British Gas, British Airways, Rolls Royce, BAA, British Steel, Water, British Electricity, they're all privatized by the Thatcher government.
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35:14Neil SandersGUEST
And she also was going to privatize the NHS at the request of another Koch brothers owned industry called the Adam Smith Institute.
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35:23Neil SandersGUEST
But she was backed
Graham Lyle: Scotland’s Most Under-the-Radar Music Legend
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23:19Sean McDonaldHOST
which
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23:19Graham LyleGUEST
was a lot more than what we're getting at the British Steel Corporation, quite honestly.
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23:23Sean McDonaldHOST
Like a bit of a formulaic process.
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23:25Sean McDonaldHOST
Was it the song Sparrow? Is that the one that Paul
Guy Butler, Co-Founder at Glenbrook - The Risks You Care About Aren't the Ones Investors Do
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27:45Guy ButlerGUEST
So it's two long brick, light coloured brick buildings.
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27:50Guy ButlerGUEST
And then with a steel structure that spanned the docks, British Steel did a case study on it.
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27:54Guy ButlerGUEST
So it's British Steel that spanned the docks.
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27:57Guy ButlerGUEST
It's 300,000 square foot over five storeys, five or six storeys.
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28:02Guy ButlerGUEST
And it was effectively the tax office announced they were going to leave.