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Thatcher’s legacy in Northern Ireland
For Margaret Thatcher, Northern Ireland wasn’t just a political minefield but a personal tragedy.
Just months before she took office in 1979, her close friend and ally, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary Airey Neave, who led her campaign for the Conservative Party Leadership, was killed when a bomb, planted by republican terrorists, went off from under his car as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster.
The musical backdrop to the backlash against Thatcherism
From the late 1970s Thatcherism ushered in an unexpectedly rich dimension of music-based protest and activism that pulled together youth movements from the very communities she sought to destroy.
Margaret Thatcher’s mixed fortunes in Wales
In 2008, the Plaid Cymru AM Bethan Jenkns declared that plans for a portrait of Margaret Thatcher to hang in the Welsh Assembly was an “insult to the people of Wales”. At the same time, the then Conservative AM and now MP for the Vale of Galmorgan Alun Cairns praised the ex PM for having “transformed the Welsh economy.”
No more blaming the eurozone: largest fall in exports is to non-EU countries
So much for the recession being made in the Eurozone. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that net trade is down and the largest fall in exports is to non-EU countries.
Margaret Thatcher: obituary
Writing an obituary for Margaret Thatcher is extremely difficult. The human dimension is clear – an old, frail woman, separated from her loving husband for a decade, has succumbed to long-term ill health. That is a sad end by anyone’s estimation. But, in terms of the politics, it is perhaps best to stick to broad-brush strokes.
Scotland reacts to the death of Margaret Thatcher
With just one MP still in Scotland, the effect of Margaret Thatcher’s reign continues to blight the Conservative party north of the border.
If welfare spending is out of control the governments of Margaret Thatcher are to blame
It is usually politicians of the left who are accused of letting welfare spending get “out of control”, but now seems a good time to look at just when it was that welfare spending began to take off as a percentage of GDP.
Five progressive things done by the governments of Margaret Thatcher
There are plenty of things Margaret Thatcher did which progressives are right to have opposed. Support for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet abroad, the casual disregard her government showed to the unemployed at home, the emasculation of local government and the introduction of Section 28.
The left still has much to learn from its defeats to Margaret Thatcher
Ever since Margaret Thatcher stopped appearing in public due to poor health, the left has seemingly been split between those readying themselves to celebrate her eventual passing and those who have resigned themselves to adopting her ideas.
Is it any wonder, with our news media, that Paris Brown has opinions like this?
Ah, the Daily Mail. One of Britain’s most popular and well read newspapers which in the past has seen fit to victimise those on benefits, transsexuals, homosexuals, asylum seekers, migrants and many more, now finds itself spitting venom at someone who isn’t even legally an adult.