His father, Ronald Ernest Tame, was a printer who had spent the war in the Eighth Army as an escort to Montgomery and had been mentioned in dispatches.

[2] He later became a process engraver and shop steward, and he and Tame's mother Elsie Florence, a nurse,[1] had met and married just after the end of the Second World War.

The shop became a "mecca" of classical liberals, anarchists, and free-marketers,[1] and was once target of a Molotov cocktail and of Socialist workers.

[1] Tame did not believe in seeking political power nor propagandising the masses, but saw the importance of influencing the intellectual debate.

During the Thatcher years, he exposed the contradictions of Conservatives who claimed to support free market economics yet demanded that "obscene" publications be censored.

"[1] In the early 1980s, Tame was recruited by Sir Keith Joseph at the Department of Trade and Industry to prepare a reading list to wean civil servants off the interventionist mindset in favour of genuine free markets and privatisation.

"[6] In the mid-1980s, Tame was a producer on Channel 4's Diverse Reports, a series which looked at topical issues with libertarian and socialist perspectives.

[1] In 1983, while researching for an article on how easy it was to acquire guns, grenades and other military items with a credit card by mail order from the United States, Tame duly did so and carried his acquired collection of light armaments in his knapsack to work further in the library at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London.

[4] In 1992, he won libel damages after successfully suing LBC Radio, which accused him of "introducing young children to cigarettes and assisting in killing 110,000 people a year.