Margaret Thatcher

Government fiddles around the edges while Australia burns

Government fiddles around the edges while Australia burns Sydney Morning Herald IN 1992, in response to the threat of global warming, the governments of the world agreed to "stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the...

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Dubai Watch

Global investors will be left this weekend pondering whether Dubai's standstill agreement on corporate debt repayment is borrower brinksmanship or a serious global debt problem and catalyst for a new round of global Credit...

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On This Day: Margaret Thatcher Steps Down as Britain’s Prime Minister

On Nov. 28, 1990, after more than 11 years as the nation’s first female premier, Margaret Thatcher resigned. Although credited with reducing inflation and victory in the Falklands War, she was and remains a profoundly divisive...

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New Ukip leader 'offered to disband party if David Cameron agreed to EU referendum'

The United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) offered to disband if David Cameron, the Conservative Leader, held a referendum on the ratified Lisbon treaty, its new leader Lord Pearson of Rannoch said. By Andrew Hough and Rosa...

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Disloyal and dismissive

SOPHIE MIRABELLA November 29, 2009 Why Turnbull must go THIS week's events in Canberra are unprecedented in the 22 years I have been a member of the Liberal Party. Malcolm Turnbull broke the basic protocol that binds the...

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'This is about the future of our planet'

'This is about the future of our planet' The Australian NOW I think we all recognise that most Australians expect their political leaders and their political parties to take effective action on climate change. This is about the...

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Clinton’s Interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC

U.S. Department of State Office of the Spokesman INTERVIEW Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton With George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s This Week Singapore QUESTION: And we begin today with the Secretary of State Hillary...

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NO SHEEP, NO LEMMINGS...

Pleased to read that a former Conservative peer has been elected the new leader of the UK Independence Party. He was my choice and this is a good move by UKIP. Lord Pearson of Rannoch will take over from Nigel Farage, who has...

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Going to war wasn’t heroic: it was a no-brainer

It is 160 years since Thomas Carlyle wrote On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History, but the treatise was in my mind as I watched Sir Jeremy Greenstock, our former Ambassador to the United Nations, give evidence on...

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The marginals that will decide our destiny

Telegraph View: A minority government, or a coalition, would be a wretched result. The YouGov opinion poll that we publish today is very encouraging for the Conservatives: it shows that the party leads Labour by 42 per cent to...

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