Henry Fairlie
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Henry Fairlie (1924 - 1990) was a British journalist for The Spectator, which he joined in 1955.
He coined the term The Establishment in his column in The Spectator on 23 September, 1955. Fairlie wrote:
- By the "Establishment", I do not only mean the centres of official power—though they are certainly part of it—but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised. The exercise of power in Britain (more specifically, in England) cannot be understood unless it is recognised that it is exercised socially.[1]
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- ^ M. J. Cohen and John Major (eds.), Cassell's History in Quotations (Cassell, 2004), p. 918.
