'One institution, founded in 1965, and now hanging on by a thread today, is the Confederation of British Industry' // Stuart Cosgrove (Detroit67Book)
One obvious reason is the spectacular events of that era, the assassination of President Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King, the war in Vietnam and the revolution in youth culture that led to the counterculture, the mod movement and the rise of psychedelia.
Call me the Mick Lynch of Letham, but the CBI has always been the boss-class dressed up to be impartial. Ironically, one of the other companies who have withdrawn their support is ITV, themselves caught up in the damaging Philip Schofield scandal. At the very least that income will collapse as companies distance themselves from the scandal and others reassess what membership delivers in a more complex business environment.referendum. It is no great secret that the outcome of indyref left me like a Partick Thistle fan on Monday morning, wondering what happened and why the world was so capricious and so cruel.
It was a dispute I witnessed close-up at Channel 4 who also took the decision to suspend its membership. Like the BBC, it cited its licence obligations to political neutrality in news and current affairs output. What surprised many staff members was that Channel 4 was ever a member. It had been an arrangement made with the corporate team that had not filtered to the creative and commissioning staff and certainly not to the ews team.
There was a time in the 1950s when “Buying British” had a market salience and appealed to a post-war myth that Britain was a signifier of tradition and quality.
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