Margaret Thatcher

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Voices & Vision

bbc.co.uk     Sep 5, 2008   2 related          

The bitter and intense industrial disputes of the autumn and winter of 1978/9 helped change the course of British politics. The Winter of Discontent, as it became known, saw a wave of crippling strikes across the country...                    

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Tragic Georgiana is the wrong role model

timesonline.co.uk     Sep 5, 2008   2 related          

Georgiana is the perfect British heroine. The Duchess of Devonshire was glamorous, articulate and daring, the doyenne of the Whig party in the 18th century and a devoted mother who gave up her future for her children....                    

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ANDREW ALEXANDER: The spectre to give Osborne sleepless nights

dailymail.co.uk     Sep 4, 2008          

Sleepless nights?: George Osborne could face a tricky position as Chancellor in 2010 A sticking plaster is no cure for a gaping wound and Gordon Brown must know it. No wonder Chancellor Alistair Darling looks even more...                    

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Estonia, Cows and a Dream....With a Bit of Alan

wordpress.com     Sep 4, 2008          

I have decided to study American Politics. Now, whereas I am not showing either convention on the big screen, I am certainly going to have the results playing for the election itself. It will be interesting to see how the...                    

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Theatrical politicians put own interests first

thejapannews.net     Sep 5, 2008          

Not even the "Iron Lady" is impervious to dementia. Upon learning former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has the condition, some readers may have felt the passage of time. During her tenure as prime minister, she...                    

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Blair Guard Leaves Gun In Cafe

sky.com     Sep 4, 2008   34 related          

8:47am UK, Thursday September 04, 2008 An investigation is underway after Tony Blair's female bodyguard reportedly left a loaded gun in a Starbucks coffee shop in London. Bodyguard was responsible for protecting former PM...                    

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Breaching the enthusiasm gap

prairiepundit.blogspot.com     Sep 4, 2008          

John Fund:Twenty years after Ronald Reagan left office, Republicans who have long missed him may have found a future Margaret Thatcher. If John McCain wins, conservatives may find one of the most enduring accomplishments...                    

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Thursday 4th September 2008

conservativehome.blogs.com     Sep 4, 2008          

3.15pm CentreRight: David Lidington MP and Daniel Hamilton on Palin's speech Reactions to Governor Palin's big speech from Tim Montgomerie and Robert Halfon ToryDiary: David Cameron's inappropriate soundbite Damian Green...                    

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For those anaerobic meetings

baltimoresun.com     Sep 4, 2008          

Samuel Johnson understood that “human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed” — and he never even worked for a corporation. It’s not just the daily routine meetings that wear...                    

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Ministers rally around Brown after Clarke comments

independent.co.uk     Sep 4, 2008   61 related          

Following Charles Clarke's assesment of Gordon Brown's premiership, the former Home Secretary was criticised by Schools Secretary Ed Balls and former minister Nigel Griffiths. Mr Balls, a key ally of Gordon Brown, told...                    

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