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The explosive drama of the 100m sprint makes it an event that transcends sport. Becoming the fastest man or woman in the world ensures a place in the history books and recognition beyond the ...
Allan Wells, an ex-long jumper who trained in an Edinburgh garage with his wife and coach Margot, resisted huge pressure from 10 Downing Street. The much-fancied Americans weren't in the Central ...
After the death of Margaret Thatcher in 2013, he displayed his gift for combining levity and seriousness in a valedictory article that rejoiced in the pop culture classics inspired by opposition to her government, while pointing out that there was nothing more subversive than a definition of happiness involving a vision of how things could be better.
10 hours ago · By PA News Agency. Share. Russian missiles have struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv and killed at least three people elsewhere in the Ukrainian capital, authorities said. Another Russian attack in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih is said to have killed at least 10 people. The assault is the biggest bombardment of Kyiv for several months.
That thought begins to curdle when you learn the scarves belonged to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. As well as being the “most dominant and divisive force in British politics in the second half of the 20th century” , Thatcher favoured governmental authority and privatisation over local community, and a decade after her death she remains a pariah to the working class.
Within this brutal logic of neoliberalism, the social becomes regressive, emptied of democratic values, and reduced to the dustbin of history by a politics that in the famous words of the late Margaret Thatcher declares with no apologies: “There is no such thing as society, there are only individuals and families.”
10 hours ago · There's this amazing story of her lover being stabbed 57 times to death ... Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. “Aesthetically and visually, it's incredibly impressive,” says Alice. ...
