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 :'For me, personally, Wilkinson and Pickett’s thesis (The Spirit Level) brings back vividly unpleasant memories of an undergraduate year in the mid-1980s that I spent, in part, being taught about socio-economic matters by my sociology tutor, a newly-minted Marxist feminist PhD. She had little tolerance for my ‘tax cutting equals economic growth equals more employment’ economic model, which she termed, ‘An ungodly synthesis of the worst of Reaganism and Thatcherism’ (which I thought oddly religious rhetoric for such a fanatical atheist). ‘On the contrary, Patrick,’ she would inform me, ‘you need to get over your fixation with economic growth. Rather than putting all our effort behind growing the economic pie, we should instead limit the pie to its current size, and then focus our energies on the issue of how we shall divide it up. There it was: Eighties-style socialist fundamentalism in a nutshell. Two sentences that encapsulated the British Labour Party’s economic thinking at the height of the Left’s control of the party and at the nadir of the party’s electoral relevance. Fortunately, I thought at the time, and for some time afterwards, such thinking has had its day. But I was wrong'.<ref>Patrick Basham, (2010),[http://spiritleveldelusion.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/foreword-by-patrick-basham.html Foreward to ''The Spirit Level Delusion''], ''Little Dice/The Democracy Institute'', Accessed 14-August-2012</ref>
+Basham has claimed to have a PhD from [[University of Cambridge]] on the subject of 'British and American political marketing',<ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/speaker_detail/285/ 2007 Program], ''Battle of Ideas'', accessed 27 November 2010.</ref> however records show that he registered for a PhD at Cambridge in 1995,<ref> University of Cambridge [http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/about/reports/ann-report-0304.pdf Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: Annual Report 2003-4], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref> submitted a thesis to the Degree Committee in 2004 which was examined that year by [[Jennifer Lees Marshment]] (then at the [[University of Keele]]<ref> Lees-Marshment J [https://leesmarshment.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/j-lees-marshment-cv-march-2012.pdf Dr. Jennifer Lees-Marshment - CV. March-2012], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>), returned to Basham for revision and never seen again. Cambridge confirms that Basham was '[http://powerbase.info/images/b/b2/Patrick_Basham%2C_Cambridge.pdf withdrawn on 8 July 2009 without qualification]'. The British Medical Journal have written to Basham 'on a number of occasions inviting him to clarify his claim to have a PhD, so far without response.'<ref name="BMJ"> David Miller and Steven Harkins [http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7638/244/rr Re: Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes] ''British Medical Journal'', 16 April 2015, accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>
 ==Tobacco work==

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 Basham worked with the [[Fraser Institute]] in a campaign against public health regulation on tobacco.<ref>James Repace, [http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/cms/file/pdf/nfraser.pdf The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?], Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-February-2010</ref><ref>In Depth: Fraser Institute, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fraserinstitute/ The Fraser Institute at 30], ''The Fraser Institute'', Accessed 10-February-2010</ref> Basham has close links to the tobacco industry.<ref>Sherry Stein, [http://www.powerbase.info/images/f/f3/Sqac53a99.pdf Letter to Adrian Payne at British American Tobacco], 28-July-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010</ref><ref>Sherry Stein, [http://www.powerbase.info/images/d/d0/Slbc53a99.pdf Letter to Martin Broughton], 28-January-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010</ref><ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.powerbase.info/images/d/d0/Slbc53a99.pdf Public Policy Sources], The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010</ref><ref>Press Release, [http://www.powerbase.info/images/c/ce/Sarh97d00.pdf Media Release], The Fraser Institute, 9-April-1999, Accessed Through Tobacco Archives 18-February-2010</ref><ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.powerbase.info/images/d/d0/Slbc53a99.pdf Public Policy Sources], The Fraser Institute, 1-August-2000, Accessed through Tobacco Archives 20-February-2010</ref> Basham has co-authored a number of research papers with [[John Luik]], who has been accused of working as a tobacco lobbyist; Luik also does work for the [[Democracy Institute]].<ref>Montreal Gazette, Blowing smoke, Cornwall Standard Freeholder (Ontario), 2-July-2001</ref>
 ==Education==
 Patrick Basham was an undergraduate student in the mid 1980s, according to his foreword to [[Christopher Snowdon]]'s book ''The Spirit Level Delusion'', Basham describes the experience:
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 :'For me, personally, Wilkinson and Pickett’s thesis (The Spirit Level) brings back vividly unpleasant memories of an undergraduate year in the mid-1980s that I spent, in part, being taught about socio-economic matters by my sociology tutor, a newly-minted Marxist feminist PhD. She had little tolerance for my ‘tax cutting equals economic growth equals more employment’ economic model, which she termed, ‘An ungodly synthesis of the worst of Reaganism and Thatcherism’ (which I thought oddly religious rhetoric for such a fanatical atheist). ‘On the contrary, Patrick,’ she would inform me, ‘you need to get over your fixation with economic growth. Rather than putting all our effort behind growing the economic pie, we should instead limit the pie to its current size, and then focus our energies on the issue of how we shall divide it up. There it was: Eighties-style socialist fundamentalism in a nutshell. Two sentences that encapsulated the British Labour Party’s economic thinking at the height of the Left’s control of the party and at the nadir of the party’s electoral relevance. Fortunately, I thought at the time, and for some time afterwards, such thinking has had its day. But I was wrong'.<ref>Patrick Basham, (2010),[http://spiritleveldelusion.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/foreword-by-patrick-basham.html Foreward to ''The Spirit Level Delusion''], ''Little Dice/The Democracy Institute'', Accessed 14-August-2012</ref>
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 Basham has claimed to have a PhD from [[University of Cambridge]] on the subject of 'British and American political marketing',<ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/speaker_detail/285/ 2007 Program], ''Battle of Ideas'', accessed 27 November 2010.</ref> however records show that he registered for a PhD at Cambridge in 1995,<ref> University of Cambridge [http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/about/reports/ann-report-0304.pdf Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: Annual Report 2003-4], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref> submitted a thesis to the Degree Committee in 2004 which was examined that year by [[Jennifer Lees Marshment]] (then at the [[University of Keele]]<ref> Lees-Marshment J [https://leesmarshment.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/j-lees-marshment-cv-november-2013.pdf Dr. Jennifer Lees-Marshment - CV. March-2012], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>), returned to Basham for revision and never seen again. Cambridge confirms that Basham was '[[http://powerbase.info/images/b/b2/Patrick_Basham%2C_Cambridge.pdf| withdrawn on 8 July 2009 without qualification]]'. The British Medical Journal have written to Basham 'on a number of occasions inviting him to clarify his claim to have a PhD, so far without response.'<ref name="BMJ"> David Miller and Steven Harkins [http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7638/244/rr Re: Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes] ''British Medical Journal'', 16 April 2015, accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>
 ==Tobacco work==

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	Basham has claimed to have a PhD from [[University of Cambridge]] on the subject of 'British and American political marketing',<ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/speaker_detail/285/ 2007 Program], ''Battle of Ideas'', accessed 27 November 2010.</ref> however records show that he registered for a PhD at Cambridge in 1995,<ref> University of Cambridge [http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/about/reports/ann-report-0304.pdf Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: Annual Report 2003-4], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref> submitted a thesis to the Degree Committee in 2004 which was examined that year by [[Jennifer Lees Marshment]] (then at the [[University of Keele]]<ref> Lees-Marshment J [https://leesmarshment.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/j-lees-marshment-cv-november-2013.pdf Dr. Jennifer Lees-Marshment - CV. March-2012], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>), returned to Basham for revision and never seen again. Cambridge confirms that Basham was '[[http://powerbase.info/images/b/b2/Patrick_Basham%2C_Cambridge.pdf\| withdrawn on 8 July 2009 without qualification]]'. The British Medical Journal have written to Basham 'on a number of occasions inviting him to clarify his claim to have a PhD, so far without response.'<ref name="BMJ"> David Miller and Steven Harkins [http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7638/244/rr Re: Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes] ''British Medical Journal'', 16 April 2015, accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>		Basham has claimed to have a PhD from [[University of Cambridge]] on the subject of 'British and American political marketing',<ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/speaker_detail/285/ 2007 Program], ''Battle of Ideas'', accessed 27 November 2010.</ref> however records show that he registered for a PhD at Cambridge in 1995,<ref> University of Cambridge [http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/about/reports/ann-report-0304.pdf Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: Annual Report 2003-4], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref> submitted a thesis to the Degree Committee in 2004 which was examined that year by [[Jennifer Lees Marshment]] (then at the [[University of Keele]]<ref> Lees-Marshment J [https://leesmarshment.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/j-lees-marshment-cv-november-2013.pdf Dr. Jennifer Lees-Marshment - CV. March-2012], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>), returned to Basham for revision and never seen again. Cambridge confirms that Basham was '[[http://powerbase.info/images/b/b2/Patrick_Basham%2C_Cambridge.pdf\| withdrawn on 8 July 2009 without qualification]]'. The British Medical Journal have written to Basham 'on a number of occasions inviting him to clarify his claim to have a PhD, so far without response.'<ref name="BMJ"> David Miller and Steven Harkins [http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7638/244/rr Re: Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes] ''British Medical Journal'', 16 April 2015, accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>

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 ==Education==
 Patrick Basham was an undergraduate student in the mid 1980s, according to his foreword to [[Christopher Snowdon]]'s book ''The Spirit Level Delusion'', Basham describes the experience:
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 :'For me, personally, Wilkinson and Pickett’s thesis (The Spirit Level) brings back vividly unpleasant memories of an undergraduate year in the mid-1980s that I spent, in part, being taught about socio-economic matters by my sociology tutor, a newly-minted Marxist feminist PhD. She had little tolerance for my ‘tax cutting equals economic growth equals more employment’ economic model, which she termed, ‘An ungodly synthesis of the worst of Reaganism and Thatcherism’ (which I thought oddly religious rhetoric for such a fanatical atheist). ‘On the contrary, Patrick,’ she would inform me, ‘you need to get over your fixation with economic growth. Rather than putting all our effort behind growing the economic pie, we should instead limit the pie to its current size, and then focus our energies on the issue of how we shall divide it up. There it was: Eighties-style socialist fundamentalism in a nutshell. Two sentences that encapsulated the British Labour Party’s economic thinking at the height of the Left’s control of the party and at the nadir of the party’s electoral relevance. Fortunately, I thought at the time, and for some time afterwards, such thinking has had its day. But I was wrong'.<ref>Patrick Basham, (2010),[http://spiritleveldelusion.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/foreword-by-patrick-basham.html Foreward to ''The Spirit Level Delusion''], ''Little Dice/The Democracy Institute'', Accessed 14-August-2012</ref>
-[[Image:Patrick Basham HoC.png|upright|Patrick Basham House of Commons Event|text-bottom]]
+[[Image:Patrick Basham The Plain Truth.png|left|Declaration in Democracy Institute Publication 'The Plain Truth'|text-bottom]]
 Basham has claimed to have a PhD from [[University of Cambridge]] on the subject of 'British and American political marketing',<ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/speaker_detail/285/ 2007 Program], ''Battle of Ideas'', accessed 27 November 2010.</ref> however records show that he registered for a PhD at Cambridge in 1995,<ref> University of Cambridge [http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/about/reports/ann-report-0304.pdf Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: Annual Report 2003-4], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref> submitted a thesis to the Degree Committee in 2004 which was examined that year by [[Jennifer Lees Marshment]] (then at the [[University of Keele]]<ref> Lees-Marshment J [https://leesmarshment.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/j-lees-marshment-cv-november-2013.pdf Dr. Jennifer Lees-Marshment - CV. March-2012], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>), returned to Basham for revision and never seen again. Cambridge confirms that Basham was '[[http://powerbase.info/images/b/b2/Patrick_Basham%2C_Cambridge.pdf| withdrawn on 8 July 2009 without qualification]]'. The British Medical Journal have written to Basham 'on a number of occasions inviting him to clarify his claim to have a PhD, so far without response.'<ref name="BMJ"> David Miller and Steven Harkins [http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7638/244/rr Re: Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes] ''British Medical Journal'', 16 April 2015, accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>

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 [[Image:Patrick Basham HoC.png|upright|Patrick Basham House of Commons Event|text-bottom]]
-Basham has claimed to have a PhD from [[University of Cambridge]] on the subject of 'British and American political marketing',<ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/speaker_detail/285/ 2007 Program], ''Battle of Ideas'', accessed 27 November 2010.</ref> however records show that he registered for a PhD at Cambridge in 1995,<ref> University of Cambridge [http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/about/reports/ann-report-0304.pdf Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: Annual Report 2003-4], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref> submitted a thesis to the Degree Committee in 2004 which was examined that year by [[Jennifer Lees Marshment]] (then at the [[University of Keele]]<ref> Lees-Marshment J [https://leesmarshment.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/j-lees-marshment-cv-november-2013.pdf Dr. Jennifer Lees-Marshment - CV. March-2012], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>), returned to Basham for revision and never seen again. Cambridge confirms that Basham was '[[powerbase.info/images/b/b2/Patrick_Basham%2C_Cambridge.pdf| withdrawn on 8 July 2009 without qualification]]'. The British Medical Journal have written to Basham 'on a number of occasions inviting him to clarify his claim to have a PhD, so far without response.'<ref name="BMJ"> David Miller and Steven Harkins [http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7638/244/rr Re: Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes] ''British Medical Journal'', 16 April 2015, accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>
+Basham has claimed to have a PhD from [[University of Cambridge]] on the subject of 'British and American political marketing',<ref>Patrick Basham, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/speaker_detail/285/ 2007 Program], ''Battle of Ideas'', accessed 27 November 2010.</ref> however records show that he registered for a PhD at Cambridge in 1995,<ref> University of Cambridge [http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/about/reports/ann-report-0304.pdf Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: Annual Report 2003-4], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref> submitted a thesis to the Degree Committee in 2004 which was examined that year by [[Jennifer Lees Marshment]] (then at the [[University of Keele]]<ref> Lees-Marshment J [https://leesmarshment.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/j-lees-marshment-cv-november-2013.pdf Dr. Jennifer Lees-Marshment - CV. March-2012], accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>), returned to Basham for revision and never seen again. Cambridge confirms that Basham was '[[http://powerbase.info/images/b/b2/Patrick_Basham%2C_Cambridge.pdf| withdrawn on 8 July 2009 without qualification]]'. The British Medical Journal have written to Basham 'on a number of occasions inviting him to clarify his claim to have a PhD, so far without response.'<ref name="BMJ"> David Miller and Steven Harkins [http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7638/244/rr Re: Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes] ''British Medical Journal'', 16 April 2015, accessed 17 April 2015.</ref>
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