No Such Thing as Society
by Andy McSmith · 19 Nov 2010 · 613pp · 151,140 words
in the Fog Chapter 7: Darling, We’re the Young Ones Chapter 8: We Work the Black Seam Chapter 9: Feed the World Chapter 10: Loadsamoney Chapter 11: Fleet Street is Unwell Chapter 12: The Bomb and the Ballot Chapter 13: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? Chapter 14: Like
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the phrase used to sum it up was not coined by an investor but by a satirical stand-up comic, Harry Enfield. It was the ‘loadsamoney’ culture. Salaries were rising, and the higher tax rates had fallen and fallen for those who were paid enough to be affected; the generous cuts
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on other issues, such as sexual morality or race relations. Perhaps surprisingly, this did not happen. People who were basking in the experience of having ‘loadsamoney’ may have been selfish, but they were not trying to force everyone else to be like them. Race and sexuality were the greatest social issues
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lengthy memoirs have nothing to say on Africa, Third World aid, Live Aid or Bob Geldof, subjects that just did not interest her. CHAPTER 10 LOADSAMONEY The act that defined the second half of the 1980s was Harry Enfield’s routine, performed on Channel 4’s Friday Night Live in 1988
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unemployment-stricken north. Enfield’s act was so popular that he made a spin-off record that was featured on Top of the Pops, and ‘loadsamoney’ became the catchphrase of the year. Neil Kinnock adopted it. Enfield, a Labour supporter, did not mind that, but he did not like it when
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.’30 One item that distinguished a ‘yuppie’ was that he or she carried a Filofax, which served as a diary, address book and whatever else. ‘Loadsamoney’ did not possess one, which put him a step behind Del Trotter, of Only Fools and Horses, who had both a mobile phone and a
Reset: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happy
by David Sawyer · 17 Aug 2018 · 572pp · 94,002 words
wearing a tracksuit top and snow wash jeans plucking a wodge of bank notes from his back pocket, waving them in your face, and shouting “loadsamoney[80]!”) But that vision, though vivid, is not strong enough. My true vision is my wife, Rachel, and me, sitting in one of those white
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choose one’s own way”: “Man’s Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope... – Amazon UK.” toreset.me/79, p. 75. [80] “loadsamoney!”: “Loadsamoney – Wikipedia.” toreset.me/80. Loadsamoney was a character created my English comedian Harry Enfield. I remember him on Ben Elton’s Friday Night Live show. The idea was
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that Loadsamoney had loads of money, and wasn’t shy telling you about it. Enfield’s alter ego came to symbolise the excesses of 1980s Britain. [81] “
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch
by Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse · 29 May 2019 · 209pp · 66,756 words
Stavros on Friday Night Live and it had become really popular so Harry wanted another character. Fortunately, Charlie and I had one up our sleeve: Loadsamoney. Friday Night Live (and later, Saturday Live) gave us the golden opportunity to do that new character on TV for three minutes, and as soon
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as that first one had gone out – after just one go, just three minutes of it! – Loadsamoney was everywhere. Wherever you went, there’d be someone shouting, ‘Shut your mouth and look at my wad!’ Writing it was an absolute guilty pleasure
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. The prevailing mood in comedy at that time was politically right-on, and Loadsamoney’s the furthest thing from that you could imagine. I mean, of course he was wrong, but there was something gloriously liberating about writing him
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would boo. ‘Shut your mouth!’ More booing. ‘Mind you – I wouldn’t shag it.’ That single line tells you everything you need to know about Loadsamoney. Bob always says the best stand-up gig he ever saw was Harry in those early days – just as he was getting famous, when it
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was three characters in a row, Stavros, Loadsamoney and Buggerallmoney, gag gag gag, bang bang bang! Bob’s always been very complimentary about Harry. When I first went to see the Big Night
The Flat White Economy
by Douglas McWilliams · 15 Feb 2015 · 193pp · 47,808 words
in London benefitted financially but suffered morally from the mega-bonus culture that infiltrated London in those days. People think of the heyday of the “loadsamoney” culture being the 1980s. But the financial merry-go-round in the city didn’t actually come to a shuddering halt until the great financial
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sold in London every day, an increase of more than 50% since 2007. Twenty years ago the tone for London living was set by the ‘Loadsamoney’ style of the rich bankers of the 1980s and 1990s. But it was extravagant, elitist and generally failed the test of good taste. Those working
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, fashion, art and design in this now trendy area. And it is much easier to copy the trends set by the Flat Whiters than the ‘Loadsamoney’ types from financial services in the 1980s and 1990s – their spending patterns are affordable. The only difficulty is in keeping up with the trends. Flat
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,000 jobs mainly in the Shoreditch area. While at the same time it has created a new lifestyle based on the hip rather than on loadsamoney. London has yet again reinvented itself. Can this continue? To look out at the future it is best to use the methodology used in earlier
A History of Modern Britain
by Andrew Marr · 2 Jul 2009 · 872pp · 259,208 words
couple of years, while Mrs Thatcher’s vision of a remoralized, hard-working nation of savers and strong families was hardly what the partying, divided, ‘loadsamoney’, easy credit, big-hair eighties delivered. What follows is a story of the failure of political elites. Often the famous political names, those faces familiar
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would, for a time, come closer to the share-owning democracy Thatcher dreamed of. But all this came at a price – the crude and swaggering ‘loadsamoney’ years satirized by the comedian Harry Enfield and the culture of excess and conspicuous display that would percolate from the City through London, then the
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comedy which would be such a mark of the next fifteen years was well established, with Harry Enfield’s Wayne and Waynetta Slob joining his ‘Loadsamoney’ attacks on the big-bucks Thatcher years, Spitting Image puppetry at its most gleefully venomous, and the arrival of a new quiz show, Have I
The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
by Philip Augar · 4 Jul 2018 · 457pp · 143,967 words
Bevan (The Times/News Licensing/Tim Bishop) 9. John Quinton (Trevor Humphries/Rex Shuttestock) 10. BZW Trading Floor (Mike Abrahams/Alamy) 11. Harry Enfield as Loadsamoney (ITV/Rex Shutterstock) 12. Andrew Buxton and Martin Taylor (UPP/TopFoto) 13. Matthew Barrett and Sir Peter Middleton (Sean Dempsey/PA Images) 14. New York
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’s first words as a plasterer on the topical satire show Friday Night Live were: ‘Look at that! Look at my wad! I’ve got loadsamoney.’ The phrase promptly entered the national lexicon.7 It was exciting, racy and looked very glamorous. But after a promising first year, Big Bang stopped
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, c. 1990. Bob Diamond called it the worst environment for a trading floor he had ever seen. 11. Harry Enfield, Friday Night Live, 1988: the Loadsamoney ethic of late 1980s Britain. 12. Country cheese and metropolitan chalk: Andrew Buxton, chief executive 1992–3, chairman 1993–9, and Martin Taylor, chief executive
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
by Stephen Fry · 27 Sep 2010 · 487pp · 132,252 words
for Harry to play. They came up with a loud-mouthed Sarf London plasterer who fanned his wad of dosh at the audience and shouted ‘Loadsamoney!’ with gleeful, exultant braggadocio. He seemed to symbolize the second act of the Thatcher play, an era of materialism, greed and contempt for those left
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Mitchell’s Alf Garnett, much of the audience seemed either to be deaf to or chose to disregard Paul and Harry’s satirical intent, raising Loadsamoney to almost folk-heroic status. Ben, Harry, Hugh and I fell into the habit of winding down, after the recordings, in a Covent Garden club
Are Chief Executives Overpaid?
by Deborah Hargreaves · 29 Nov 2018 · 98pp · 27,201 words
could be cashed in for shares began to be developed. Money-making becomes sexy This academic work was being done against the backdrop of the ‘loadsamoney’ culture of the 1980s, which heralded an era of self-gratification and the pursuit of material goods. This happened on both sides of the Atlantic
And Away...
by Bob Mortimer · 15 Sep 2021 · 261pp · 87,663 words
or so they would appear through the curtain smoking cigars and drinking champagne. Harry would berate everyone in our section by declaring that he had ‘loadsamoney’ and Paul would announce that each and every one of us was ‘an absolute shower’ and not even worthy of a ‘ding dong’. Our first
EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
by Ashoka Mody · 7 May 2018
. htm. Greif, Avner, and David Laitin. 2004. “A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change.” American Political Science Review 98, no. 4: 633–652. Grey, Stephen. 2000. “Loadsamoney: Once the Friendship of Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand Was the Symbol of All That Was Best about the New Europe.” Sunday Times, January 30
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