Setup of Libertarian Alliance
Tame joined the Conservative students' organisation at Hull, and became active in the organisation. Disillusioned by the interventionist and authoritarian mindset, he left and never went back. He had felt that the Conservative Party was dominated by a "corporate elite" wedded to a "corrupt state capitalism". He announced his departure from the rostrum at an annual Federation of Conservative Students conference in the early 1970s.
In 1967, Tame founded the Libertarian Alliance as an informal discussion group, drawing ideas from Ayn Rand, among others. The organisation was formalised in 1979, with a structure of Tame as its President, and the Alliance was based in the Alternative Bookshop which Tame had opened in Covent Garden in London a year earlier.
After university, Tame settled in London, where he worked mainly for the Institute of Economic Affairs and the National Association for Freedom (now the Freedom Association).
In 1978, Tame set up the Alternative Bookshop and was its manager. The shop became a "mecca" of classic liberals, anarchists, and free-marketers, and was once target of a Molotov cocktail and of Socialist workers. The bookshop closed its doors in 1985 due to an unaffordable rent increase.
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