Tue. December 02, 2008
-
Mail on Sunday
December 2, 2008
The idea - a parallel to Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy council houses which revolutionised home ownership in the 1980s - was put forward by former Tory ...
Socialistworker.co.uk
December 2, 2008
In the early 1980s
Margaret Thatcher's Tory government responded to the recession by launching sweeping attacks on
workers. At the end of 1979 British
steel ...
Health Service Journal
December 2, 2008
But both were slow moving, with the recommendations of the former not emerging until after the 1979 Conservative victory made Margaret Thatcher prime ...
Ventura County Star
December 2, 2008
Humes said when he met former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last year for his book about Reagan, Thatcher said Reagan had such a way with words ...
Leader-Telegram
December 2, 2008
In the 1980s,
President Reagan and British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher were able to push through some
free market reforms in the Western democracies. ...
NW Evening Mail
December 2, 2008
There isn'ta lot of difference between Margaret Thatcher's time and New Labour since 1997. Both parties have sold everything they can and the poor old ...
Assetz News
December 2, 2008
Dubbed in some quarters as the "French Margaret Thatcher" for the parallel with her expansion of home ownership through council house sales in the 1980s, ...
findingDulcinea
December 1, 2008
Attitudes began to change in
Britain in the 1950s, but it took until 1981, when the British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher and her French counterpart ...
BNET
December 1, 2008
He is also wistful for the days of
Ronald Reagan,
Margaret Thatcher and
Tony Blair, and thinks President Obama could learn from them. ...
History News Network
December 1, 2008
In the aftermath of
Gulf War I, various accounts of what British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher had supposedly said to
President Bush right after the ...
Irish Examiner
November 30, 2008
It is so bad that even the much poorer newer member states end up paying money to
Britain because of
Margaret Thatcher's bag snatch when she insisted ...
WhatsOnStage.com
November 30, 2008
Maggie's End, which is sponsored by NUM North East Area, the RMT, UNITE and the GMB, is a dark comedy that begins with the death of Margaret Thatcher. ...
Irish Independent
November 30, 2008
Indeed,
Margaret Thatcher attracted more rudeness than perhaps any other
politician of her era. "When she speaks without thinking, she says what she thinks ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 30, 2008
Not since
Margaret Thatcher have two
politicians been so insistent that we need a sense of personal accountability and should stop looking to government to ...
Independent
November 30, 2008
There are people - such as
Margaret Thatcher and
John Major - who can do well on so few hours' sleep. But not me. On such small amounts of sleep, ...
Times Online
November 30, 2008
Lord Young, who took the title of enterprise secretary under Margaret Thatcher, preferring it to secretary of state for trade and industry, suddenly found ...
Sunday Herald
November 30, 2008
When the person who was presiding over what happened, Margaret Thatcher, wasn't someone who came across sympathetically to that constituency then you've got ...
guardian.co.uk
November 30, 2008
DLOs were abolished by Margaret Thatcher, as were most city architects' departments. Without them, we have lost the sense of teamwork and municipal pride, ...
Huddersfield Examiner
November 29, 2008
... top of the redundancy list and first to have their homes repossessed" ( Richard Huddleston, Mailbag Nov 26) and thinks Margaret Thatcher was a saviour. ...
Shields Gazette
November 29, 2008
By Leah Strug A CONTROVERSIAL play about the death of
Margaret Thatcher is heading to
London next year to mark the 25th anniversary of the Miners' Strike. ...
Lower Hudson Journal news
November 29, 2008
"The perception of
Margaret Thatcher here is that she was a friend of
Ronald Reagan," Daldry said. "Whereas the perception of her is very different in the ...
Mirror.co.uk
November 29, 2008
MPs are urging
Gordon Brown to scrap
Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy scheme to reverse a startling shortage of council houses. ...
New York Times
November 28, 2008
It taps a vein of uniquely British Margaret Thatcher-phobia so cheerfully that the New York audience claps along as the former prime minister (who still has ...
Compass Youth
November 28, 2008
To understand why these changes are so important, we need to look at the history of
taxation in this country since
Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979. ...
The Times
November 28, 2008
... Mann could be transferred home if
Britain arrests other coup suspects like Sir
Mark Thatcher - the son of former prime minister Baroness
Margaret Thatcher.
Moneybiz
November 28, 2008
... Mann could be transferred home if
Britain arrests other coup suspects like Sir
Mark Thatcher - the son of former prime minister Baroness
Margaret Thatcher.
Calgary Herald
November 28, 2008
However, it is well known that conservative governments (
Margaret Thatcher,
George Bush) have increased the gap between the rich and poor. ...
Independent
November 28, 2008
Not since Margaret Thatcher came to power in the late 1970s determined to roll back the frontiers of the state has there been such a seminal change in the ...
The Young Turks
November 28, 2008
On the subject of
Margaret Thatcher, who was discussed yesterday, I found a web site referring to the 98%
tax rate, although it seems as though it might be ...
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
November 28, 2008
Instead he covers Margaret Thatcher with sweet smelling roses. In reality, Margaret Thatcher's policies encompassed the 18th century economist Adam Smith's ...
findingDulcinea
November 28, 2008
by findingDulcinea Staff On Nov. 28, 1990, after more than 11 years as the nation's first female premier, Mrs. Thatcher resigned. ...
New Statesman
November 27, 2008
... that the top rate of
tax under
Margaret Thatcher was 60 per cent, until it was slashed to 40 per cent by the then chancellor, Nigel Lawson, in 1988. ...
Which?
November 27, 2008
The company enjoyed sustained success during the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher sold off council houses to tenants and looked to MFI to help people spruce up ...
The Villager
November 26, 2008
The story is set in the 1984 when
Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of
Great Britain and coalminers' unions were striking against her policies on the ...
Socialistworker.co.uk
November 26, 2008
Faced with the collapse of British manufacturing industry,
Margaret Thatcher and her chancellor Geoffrey Howe raised
taxes and cut public spending in their ...
Bloomberg
November 26, 2008
In 1989, Brown penned a book, "Where There Was Greed," a scathing attack on the policies of Conservative Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, who had cut
taxes ...
Yorkshire Post
November 26, 2008
As a civil servant, I had no status in Margaret Thatcher's Tory leadership election woes. But I had a duty to the media to see that they could cover the ...
Socialistworker.co.uk
November 26, 2008
Ever since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 we have heard a neoliberal mantra, first from the Tories and then New Labour. ...
Scotsman
November 26, 2008
An obvious example is Margaret Thatcher's Ri In her gusto to create a property-owning society, millions of council homes were sold. ...