Office Space (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... 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,...
Groupe socialiste (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
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....
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Andrew Sparrow: OK, the headline's a bit naughty. But that's the verdict of the Mail's star parliamentary sketchwriter, Quentin Letts
Why England Needs A Parliament (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Norfolk Blogger writes about Margaret Thatcher and the Right To Buy. The Credit Crunch is all her fault, he reckons. But the Right to Buy issue is more complex than that - and sales of council houses did not begin under Thatcher... Most secure tenants of local authority houses in England and Wales gained the Right to Buy their homes at a discount with the enactment of the Housing...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A reader chimes in: I just want to ask: can anyone, anyone, imagine Condoleeza Rice or Margaret Thatcher or even Hillary Clinton for God's sake, winking at the nation and/or being coquettish in any national format? Yeah. Just checking. The...
Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... a heightened sense of community." The problem for me is this seems so similar to the strategy of Margaret Thatcher which has led to our own housing bubble. Council houses were sold off, councils were not allowed to use the cash to build new ones leading to shortages of housing, people getting on the housing ladder without the necessary finance, banks becoming increasingly willing...
British Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Okay, okay I know this is not today’s headline, but there must be a real risk, that in the not too distant future, we will see such a headline. Since Margaret Thatcher persuaded millions of people that home ownership was a goal worth aiming for and, lead the way with a massive sale of local authority owned houses, [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
1 Margaret Thatcher. For all her faults (FAHF), she smashed the consensus of the 1970s, that low, dishonest decade. The administrative class had settled on a job description "to manage the process of decline". She allowed those with talent to rise faster than their years. Her principle was "the many not the few". And for those who hate her – she shut more grammar schools than Tony Crosland....
HDTV UK (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Tiger Aspect Productions has been commissioned by BBC Four to produce Crooked House, written by Mark Gatiss of The League of Gentlemen fame and directed by Damon Thomas. Fully shot in high definition, the cast includes Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing), Mark Gatiss, Philip Jackson (Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk To Finchley), Lee Ingleby (George Gently), Jean Marsh (Sense And Sensibility),...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
I thought Labour MPs were going way over the top when they spoke about the financial crisis being Gordon Brown's equivalent of Margaret Thatcher's Falklands War, which transformed her fortunes before the 1983 election.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
SCOTTISH Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott today accused Alex Salmond of putting Margaret Thatcher "into rehab".
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
SCOTTISH Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott today accused Alex Salmond of putting Margaret Thatcher "into rehab".
IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
By Andrew Grice I thought Labour MPs were going way over the top when they spoke about the financial crisis being Gordon Brown's equivalent of Margaret Thatcher's Falklands War, which transformed her fortunes before the 1983 election. Maybe they were...
Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Lovers of small government may not like this. Perhaps Gordon Brown’s government reshuffleshould have come with a health warning! There are now 121 ministers, whips or law officers. There were 106 members of the government when Margaret Thatcher formed her first government in 1979 and 112 when Tony Blair formed his in 1997. Winston Churchill managed to fight the [...]
