Wednesday 24th March 1982
John Cassels - 2nd Perm Sec - from MoP [Management & Personnel Office] about Janet Young’s discrimination in favor of young for civil service
- sinister suggestions that we should have positive discrimination for blacks
- the man was fairly stupid - no argument for the youth discrimination - YTS - due to be negotiated - wanted Civil Service youths for “pilot schemes”
McAnally Montgomery + Co - euphoria?
hardly, but they thought things were improving
Jock Douglas quite a sharp man - He complained about IR practices so I asked him to keep me informed.
Reviewed good account of Thatcherism by Darby + Langham [sic: in fact Darby & Lothian] (Citibank) - I gave him an interview about 1Y months ago.
Goldstein saw me about unfair competition with covered overheads from TRRL [Transport & Road Research Laboratory?] under British Technology Group - not fully private.