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The Mayfair Set

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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. [1]

67 relations: Adam Curtis, Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Albert J. Dunlap, Anthony Grant (politician), Arms industry, Asset stripping, BBC, BBC Genome Project, BBC Two, Bovril, British Academy Film Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Airways, British Rail, Civil and Public Services Association, Clermont Club, Conservative Party (UK), Corporate raid, Counterintelligence, David Stirling, Defence & Security Organisation, Denis Healey, Documentary film, Douglas Hurd, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Edward Heath, Edward Spears, English Electric, Fraud Squad (United Kingdom), General Motors, Geoffrey Edwards (political scientist), George Soros, Golden Nugget Las Vegas, James Goldsmith, Jim Slater (accountant), John Aspinall (zoo owner), John Barry (composer), John Kenneth Galbraith, Lonmin, Margaret Thatcher, Mayfair, Metropolitan Police Service, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Morgan, Grenfell & Co., Norman Tebbit, Pension fund, Playboy, Post Office Ltd, Rudy Giuliani, ..., S. G. Warburg & Co., Said Aburish, Slater Walker, Socialite, Speculation, Stephen Lambert (media executive), Strategist, The Century of the Self, The Guardian, The Living Dead (TV series), The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Tiny Rowland, Tom Peters, Victor Lownes, Zambia. Expand index (17 more) »

Adam Curtis

Kevin Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is a British documentary film-maker.

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Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi

Dr. Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (أحمد زكي أبو شادي) (February 9, 1892 – April 12, 1955), (also transliterated as Ahmed Zaky Abushady) was an Egyptian Romantic poet, publisher, medical doctor, bacteriologist and bee scientist.

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Ahmed Zaki Yamani

Ahmed Zaki Yamani (أحمد زكي يماني; born 30 June 1930) is a Saudi Arabian politician who was Minister of Oil (Petroleum) and Mineral Resources from 1962 to 1986, and a minister in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for 25 years.

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Albert J. Dunlap

Albert John Dunlap (born July 26, 1937) is an American disbarred corporate executive.

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Anthony Grant (politician)

Sir John Anthony Grant (29 May 1925 – 9 October 2016) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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Arms industry

The arms industry, also known as the defense industry or the arms trade, is a global industry responsible for the manufacturing and sales of weapons and military technology.

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Asset stripping

Asset stripping is a term used to refer to the practice of selling off a company's assets in order to improve returns for equity investors.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Genome Project

The BBC Genome Project is a digitised, searchable database of programme listings initially based upon the contents of the Radio Times from the first issue in 1923, to 2009.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Bovril

Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick and salty meat extract paste similar to a yeast extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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British Airways

British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size, or the second largest, behind easyJet, when measured by passengers carried.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Civil and Public Services Association

The Civil and Public Services Association (CPSA) was a trade union in the United Kingdom, representing civil servants.

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Clermont Club

The Clermont Set was an exclusive group of rich British gamblers who met at the Clermont Club, originally at 44 Berkeley Square, in London's fashionable Mayfair district.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Corporate raid

In business, a corporate raid is the process of buying a large stake in a corporation and then using shareholder voting rights to require the company to undertake novel measures designed to increase the share value, generally in opposition to the desires and practices of the corporation's current management.

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Counterintelligence

Counterintelligence is "an activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program against an opposition's intelligence service." It likewise refers to information gathered and activities conducted to counter espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons, international terrorist activities, sometimes including personnel, physical, document or communications security programs.

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David Stirling

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a Scottish officer in the British Army, mountaineer, and the founder of the Special Air Service.

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Defence & Security Organisation

The Defence & Security Organisation (DSO) is an organisation within the Department for International Trade responsible for helping British arms companies export.

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Denis Healey

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Douglas Hurd

Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, (born 8 March 1930) is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.

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Drexel Burnham Lambert

Drexel Burnham Lambert was a major Wall Street investment banking firm that was forced into bankruptcy in February 1990 due to its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market, driven by Drexel employee Michael Milken.

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Edward Heath

Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.

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Edward Spears

Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, (7 August 1886 – 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars.

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English Electric

The English Electric Company Limited was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice of World War I at the end of 1918.

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Fraud Squad (United Kingdom)

A Fraud Squad is a police department which investigates fraud and other economic crimes.

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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Geoffrey Edwards (political scientist)

Dr Geoffrey Edwards is a British academic born in 1945, specialising in the European Union (especially its institutions and its foreign and security policies).

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George Soros

George Soros, Hon (Soros György,; born György Schwartz; August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American investor, business magnate, philanthropist, political activist and author.

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Golden Nugget Las Vegas

The Golden Nugget Las Vegas is a luxury hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Fremont Street Experience.

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James Goldsmith

Sir James Michael Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997), a member of the prominent Jewish Goldsmith family, was an Anglo-French financier, tycoonBillionaire: The Life and Times of Sir James Goldsmith by Ivan Fallon and politician.

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Jim Slater (accountant)

James Derrick Slater (13 March 1929 – 18 November 2015) was a British accountant, investor and business writer.

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John Aspinall (zoo owner)

John Victor Aspinall (11 June 1926 – 29 June 2000) was an English zoo owner and gambling club host.

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John Barry (composer)

John Barry Prendergast, (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music.

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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-born economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism.

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Lonmin

Lonmin plc, formerly the mining division of Lonrho plc, is a British producer of platinum group metals operating in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Mayfair

Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the east edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Mohamed Al-Fayed

Mohamed Al-Fayed (محمد أنور شاكر عبد السيد الفايد,; born 27 January 1929) is an Egyptian business magnate.

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Morgan, Grenfell & Co.

Morgan, Grenfell & Co. was a leading London-based investment bank regarded as one of the oldest and once most influential British merchant banks.

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Norman Tebbit

Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, (born 29 March 1931) is a British politician and life peer.

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Pension fund

A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund in some countries, is any plan, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income.

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Playboy

Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine.

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Post Office Ltd

Post Office Ltd (Swyddfa’r Post Cyf.; Oifis a' Phuist) is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of post office branches.

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Rudy Giuliani

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American politician, attorney, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and attorney to President Donald Trump.

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S. G. Warburg & Co.

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Said Aburish

Said Aburish (full name Saʿīd Muḥammad Khalīl ʾAbū Rīsh) (سعيد محمد خليل أبو الريش; 1 May 1935 – 29 August 2012), was a Palestinian journalist and writer.

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Slater Walker

Slater Walker was a British industrial conglomerate turned bank, specialising in corporate raids that got into financial difficulties in the 1970s.

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Socialite

A socialite is a person (usually from a privileged, wealthy, or aristocratic background) who has a wide reputation and a high position in society.

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Speculation

Speculation is the purchase of an asset (a commodity, goods, or real estate) with the hope that it will become more valuable at a future date.

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Stephen Lambert (media executive)

Stephen Lambert (born 22 March 1959) is an English television producer and executive who works in Britain and America.

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Strategist

A strategist is a person with responsibility for the formulation and implementation of a strategy.

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The Century of the Self

The Century of the Self is a 2002 British television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Living Dead (TV series)

The Living Dead: Three Films About the Power of the Past is the second major BBC television documentary series by British filmmaker Adam Curtis.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Sunday Telegraph

The Sunday Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961, and is published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tiny Rowland

Roland "Tiny" Rowland (November 27, 1917 – July 25, 1998) was a controversial high-profile British businessman, corporate raider and Chief Executive of the Lonrho conglomerate from 1962 to 1994.

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Tom Peters

Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942) is an American writer on business management practices, best known for In Search of Excellence (co-authored with Robert H. Waterman Jr).

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Victor Lownes

Victor Aubrey Lownes III (April 17, 1928 – January 11, 2017) was an executive for HMH Publishing Company Inc., later known as Playboy Enterprises, from 1955 through the early 1980s.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mayfair_Set

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