Pub Philosopher (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
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...
Groupe socialiste (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
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.
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, about...
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.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
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,...
THE WILTED ROSE (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
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 [...]
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
But Betty Boop did. A little unnerving in its 1932 Palin prescience:
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 Act...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... 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...
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
... 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 to lend to anyone, and...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Zakaria trashes Thatcher, Meacham trashes Palin, and Francis Fukuyama trashes deregulation. Three thousand words go by, but Fukuyama never gets around to mentioning Fannie, Freddie, or the Fed as culprits for the financial crisis. Everything would be better if only Glass-Steagall hadn't been repealed. There are a lot of smart people in this issue, which makes it all the more disappointing.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Mayor Thatcher W. Kezer III recently hosted a meeting of the Massachusetts Mayors Association that featured a discussion with state Secretary of Education Paul Reville. At the three-hour session in the Powow River Grille on Main Street, the mayors and Reville talked about Governor Deval Patrick's education goals, school funding, and other issues. Reville outlined key components of the ...
