Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

LOL GRAMZ (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

The Margaret Thatcher NUT Cracker, In Pictures

Anorak News (Free subscription) | yesterday

This Christmas why not get the Margaret Thatcher nut cracker. Or is that NUT cracker?

Thatcher: the political case for EC membership

Stanley's blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

Margaret Thatcher, speaking in the British House of Commons on 8 April 1975, during the referendum debate on EC membership: “First, the case for being in the Common Market. I believe, with a number of hon. Members who spoke yesterday, that the paramount case for being in is the political case for peace and security. It is [...]

Politics News: Alex Salmond compares independence referendum opponents to Margaret Thatcher

The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

FIRST MINISTER Alex Salmond yesterday said opponents of an independence referendum were as arrogant as Margaret Thatcher's attitude to Scotland.

• Vote opposition 'like Thatcher' - BBC News

Vote opposition 'like Thatcher'

BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

Salmond compares independence referendum opposition with the "arrogance" that Margaret Thatcher showed Scotland.

Prescient Margaret Thatcher Quote of the Day

Isn't It Rich (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

The inimitable Margaret Thatcher said it: "I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And you know, there is no such thing as society. There...

Decline in manufacturing greater under Labour than with Thatcher

Financial Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

The importance of manufacturing to the economy declined more rapidly under Labour administrations since 1997 than it did during the Margaret Thatcher era, according to...

Howard Dean Socialism Capitalism: Margaret Thatcher Socialism Explained

Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

... isn't a "community" endeavor, I don't know what is. See two videos below - don't miss Margaret Thatcher comparing socialism and capitalism in the second. Howard Dean Margaret Thatcher Howard Dean is a former Vermont governor, a former chair of the DNC, a physician who hasn't had to keep office hours lately, and the founder of Democracy for America. Many organizations...

Interesting People # 144 - Margaret Thatcher

Interesting Facts (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

Margaret Thatcher only suffered one parliamentary defeat during her "reign" as prime minister - on Sunday trading laws. (The UK trading act was eventually passed eight years later. But it still faced stiff opposition, and not just from religious groups, trade unions, and even some large stores such as Marks and Spencer and Waitrose were also opposed to the idea. Before Sunday...

Interesting People # 144 - Margaret Thatcher

Interesting Facts (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

Margaret Thatcher only suffered one parliamentary defeat during her "reign" as prime minister - on Sunday trading laws. (The UK trading act was eventually passed eight years later. But it still faced stiff opposition, and not just from religious groups, trade unions, and even some large stores such as Marks and Spencer and Waitrose were also opposed to the idea. Before Sunday...

Windfall taxes are nothing new

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

• Margaret Thatcher introduced a levy on banks in 1981 • New Labour targeted utilities after coming to power in 1997 Windfall taxes are often championed by the political left as a good way of recouping cash from "fat cats" seen to have made excessive profits. But in fact Margaret Thatcher's government was one of the most notable users of the tactic....

Monckton joins UKIP

UKIP (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

... has accepted my invitation to join UKIP as our chief spokesman on Climate Change. "He was Margaret Thatcher's Special Adviser in Downing Street on a number of areas, including science. He is now perhaps the world's leading expert on the case against Man-made Global Warming, and as such is a household name in the United States and elsewhere. "To have another heavyweight join...

WSJ: Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?

Hyscience (Free subscription) | yesterday

... to consider. And neither have the media. Enter Lord Christopher Monckton. The former adviser to Margaret Thatcher gave an address at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month that made quite a splash. For the first time, the public heard about the 181 pages, dated Sept. 15, that comprise the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change --a rough draft of...

Tories can lead on climate change | Tim Yeo

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Twenty years ago, Thatcher was first major leader to take climate change seriously. Cameron can continue that legacy The increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will, if unchecked, inevitably lead to dangerous and possibly irreversible climate change. Yet no country is individually taking sufficiently drastic measures to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions and...

Lord Monckton Reveals Scientific Fraud at Copenhagen

Institutional Financial Derivatives (Free subscription) | yesterday

Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, British politician, business consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, inventor and adviser to Margaret Thatcher's policy unit in the 1980s. Monckton is a vociferous critic of the climate scam gang. He reports from the summit. 5 parts. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/