Thatcherism was still wreaking, and had wrought for the previous decade, the most heinous social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country... We were told that everything I had been taught to regard as a vice—and I still regard them as vices—was, in fact, under Thatcherism, a virtue: greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees, all these were the way forward.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Thatcherism was still wreaking, and had wrought for the previous decade, the most heinous social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country... We were told that everything I had been taught to regard as a vice—and I still regard them as vices—was, in fact, under Thatcherism, a virtue: greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees, all these were the way forward." in the context of "Glenda Jackson (12 April 2013). Extract from a delivered in the House of Commons, as quoted in "Thatcher, a woman? Not on my terms", openDemocracy (12 April 2013)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.