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You may not remember, but I do – vividly. There was a time in my first job, at the supposedly apolitical BBC, when most of my contemporaries suddenly sprouted little lapel badges with the defensive legend: "Don't blame me, I voted Labour." Not by temperament a badge-wearer, I found the phenomenon rather juvenile. But, of course, not displaying one was tantamount to having "Blame me...." tattooed in...
With all the bad financial news lapping around us, it seems absolutely scurrilous to us that some people are trying to say that the fault lies with Thatcherism and that the we were irrevocably set on this cause in 1979. Socialists nowadays have a vehement dislike of mentioning the 1980s, believing the 70s to be the last time anything significant happened, but that's surely a grossly childish...
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Today Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrates her 83rd Birthday. So to mark the occasion BUCF, renowned for its unswering loyalty to the Iron Lady, is devoting the days blogging entirely to her (well… whats new!? :P) The videos below were taken 25 years ago today to mark Lady Thatcher’s 58th Birthday. The first video in particular highlights the [...]
Laban Tall has a way of putting things succinctly. The Thatcher years were when our modern culture - or lack of - entrenched itself, and while this was by no means all her fault, the toxic synergy between her determination...
Richard Corbett MEP, Labour's euro-spokesman on EU Reform in the European Parliament, today expressed his surprise at yet another Tory split on Europe. Two Conservative MEPs, Christopher Beazley and Caroline Jackson approved a report that means that the blue flag with twelve gold stars and Beethoven's Ode to Joy will be officially recognised by the Parliament.
... can boast some of the greatest leaders in history. Names such as Wellington, Disraeli, Churchill, Thatcher. Of these, Margaret Thatcher definitely had the most attractive breasts, and was certainly rumoured to be an absolute panther in the bedroom department. But how many of us knew the whole truth about this remarkable woman, this 'Iron Lady'? Few people know, for instance, about...
LettersCodename ThatcherJonathan Glancey says of Le Corbusier - whose "thousands of devoted disciples" blighted millions of urban lives - that although his rough-cast concrete homes, self-proclaimed "machines to live in", were "not easy to live in", he produced an architecture "for all time, connecting the past, present and all religious faiths or forms of spirituality" (Faith, hope and clarity,...
Tomorrow’s vote in the European Parliament on the EU anthem and flag is endorsing a decision made by Margaret Thatcher and EU heads of government 23-years-ago, points out Labour MEP Richard Corbett. The original decision to adopt the 12-starred flag and Beethoven’s Ode To Joy as the EU’s symbols, was agreed in the EU Council meeting of 1985 on behalf of Britain by Mrs Thatcher.
If Thatcher oversaw the collapse of British heavy industry, Brown’s legacy is leading the collapse of London’s once globally competitive financial services sector. Why does Parliament not have a vote on this issue? And part of the deal is that the banks don’t pay out dividends to shareholders. They’ll love that, though why hold a bank share [...]
Reader Ryan F., a conservative, sends along this five-minute video clip of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tangling with a British subject over the Falklands War. It's astonishing to watch and to see what its like to see a politician who...
... not what ideological mantras to keep repeating. It's the age of Michael Bloomberg, not Margaret Thatcher. Of course, without Margaret Thatcher (or her equivalent, Rudy Giuliani), there would be no Bloomberg. The "small c" conservative point here, it seems to me, is that policy should reflect changing times. People forget that Reagan's attack on government was premised on a particular...
Kashkari said the Treasury tapped law firm Simpson Thatcher to provide advice on taking equity stakes in banks and chose consultancy Ennis Knupp to help select asset managers for buying illiquid assets from financial institutions.
Kashkari said the Treasury tapped law firm Simpson Thatcher to provide advice on taking equity stakes in banks as part of its $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector.
Really! During the "Morning Edition" news block, the local NPR station here in Washington, WAMU, runs the feature, "The Writer's Almanac," a short segment of Garrison Keillor mentioning historical moments of the day. (For example, today is Margaret Thatcher's 84th...
