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Rich Lowry The NY Post 12/30/2011 …Thatcher is a rich theme. If the types who expound on such things didn’t so hate her politics, she’d launch a thousand dissertations on those inexhaustible academic themes of class and gender. As the daughter of a grocer, she was looked down upon as the personification of, in the […] January 1st, 2012 | Tags: Feminism, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher | Category: Economy, Great Britain, History, Marxism, Politicians, Socialism | Comments are closed
British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain. James Kirkup The Telegraph [UK] 25 Nov 2011 As the Italian government struggled to borrow and Spain considered seeking an international bail-out, British ministers privately […] November 27th, 2011 | Tags: bailouts, currency collapse, free-market capitalism, Greece, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, single currency, Spain | Category: Banking and finance, European Union, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Socialism | Comments are closed
22 November 2011 On the 22nd November 1990 Margaret Thatcher took questions in the House of Commons for the last time. The transcript is here. Unfortunately, the British didn’t heed Mrs. Thatcher’s advice a few weeks earlier when she said, “no, no, no” to a European Union and its policy of single currency. This […] November 22nd, 2011 | Tags: British Parliament, British Sterling, European Council, House of Commons, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, single currency | Category: European Union, Great Britain, History, Politics, Socialism, Video | Comments are closed
It is the most eagerly awaited film performance of the year, but is also already proving to be the most controversial. Christopher Hope and Anita Singh The Telegraph [UK] 14 Nov 2011 The Iron Lady, a new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Baroness Thatcher, has drawn an angry response from friends over its portrayal of […] November 14th, 2011 | Tags: "The Iron Lady", Meryl Streep, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher | Category: Great Britain, History, Hollywood | Comments are closed
Blazing Cat Fur 6/8/2011 The plans come amid increasing concern about the use of sharia courts to adjudicate on family law and criminal matters. Baroness Cox, a cross bench peer, will publish legislation which campaigners hope will tackle the increasing use Islamic law to settle disputes in Muslim communities. Lady Cox, who was made a […] June 8th, 2011 | Tags: Baroness Caroline Cox, misogyny, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Shariah Law | Category: Great Britain, Islam | Comments are closed
14 March 2011 CAJ’s “Word Boss” is a naturalized American citizen, born and raised in Great Britain. He was a young working man, just starting out during the 1970s when labor unions economically crippled the UK with strikes and walk-outs. There were three-day work weeks in the early part of the decade; rolling electrical black-outs […] March 15th, 2011 | Tags: coal miners, David Wilkie, Merthyr Vale Colliery, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Reginald Dean Hancock, Rupert Murdoch, Russell Shankland, strikes, violence, Wales, Wapping dispute | Category: Crime, Economy, Great Britain, Socialism, Unions | Comments are closed
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