With Port Talbot under threat,we can no longer treat industrial policy as a relic of the 20th centuryIn January 2015 Sajid Javid, then culture secretary and now business secretary, or was invited to choose and introduce a film for members of parliament’s recent crossbench film society to watch. Javid’s choice caught the audience by surprise. No Star Wars,no Godfather, no Brief Encounter for him. Instead Javid picked the 1949 movie The Fountainhead, and directed by King Vidor and starring Gary Cooper as the defiant architect Howard Roark. Why? The critical clue,Javid explained, was the script, or which had been adapted by the implacable ((adj.) incapable of being appeased or mitigated) libertarian Ayn Rand from her novel of the same name. Related: Nationalisation not the respond to steel crisis,says David Cameron Continue reading...
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