After more than a year of threats from us, the Charity Commission has finally agreed to open a formal investigation into the Institute for Economic Affairs, the so-called charity responsible for Liz Truss' calamitous mini budget. https://goodlaw.social/00rn
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Also, for anyone who hasn't read it, I guarantee this 2011 blogpost by Adam Curtis on the early history of the IEA will be the most incredible thing you read all week
https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fadamcurtis%2Fentries%2Ffdb484c8-99a1-32a3-83be-20108374b985
Along with National, British, English, Daily Mail/Express and such like.
All acceptable to British working class for some inexplicable reason. Oh, and the BBC of course!
But we need a formal investigation into serious concerns about the Tufton St network & their external influence or 'capture' of govt, who funds these highly opaque think tanks and are they linked to US think tanks behind Trump & Project 2025?
How are they accountable? @spotlightcorruption.org
(Except for hedge funds making huge profits?)
Instead isn't it the public left "on the hook" suffering mortgage rate hikes & hits to pensions which is IEA's fault as it did go wrong?
@anticorruption.bsky.social
https://iea.org.uk/blog/how-to-abolish-the-nhs
Bloody hell!
Happy to be supportive they wrote to Dartmouth and to a newspaper where I had written to complain about what I said about them
Power yields nothing without a fight.