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Jun 12, 2024 · The new book examines the escalating tension between the broadcast media and the Thatcher government over various flashpoints in the Northern Irish conflict, including the 1981 hunger strike by IRA prisoners; a deadly IRA bombing attempt that Thatcher narrowly escaped; the killing of three Provisional IRA members in Gibraltar ...
3 days ago · He fared considerably better in the 1982 touring version of John Wells' West End political farce Anyone for Denis, playing Denis Thatcher. The critics were very kind to him ('astonishingly good', one judged his performance), even though he had to endure being described, as if he had spent most of the past decade hidden away in a cave, as 'the long-faced chap from On The Buses '.
5 days ago · 2. Gillian Anderson in The Crown (Netflix, 2020) There was tense control here that got under your skin, mainly because Anderson really did get under Thatcher’s. It made the viewer itch, rather ...
4 days ago · Not only was he Margaret Thatcher’s private secretary when she was prime minister, responsible for economic affairs, but because Thatcher chose not to appoint an economic advisor, preferring to rely on her treasury ministers Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson, he was the only economist working in No. 10 between 1979 and 1981.
4 days ago · Introduced in October 1988 under the Broadcasting Act 1981, the ban was dreamt up by a vengeful Margaret Thatcher – who narrowly escaped assassination by the IRA in the 1984 Brighton bombing ...
6 days ago · We can trace the growing inequality back to the time Adam Smith’s words became doctrine again, the time of Thatcher and Reagan, trickle down economy became the order of the day, if the rich could be rewarded for being rich by becoming richer, a few pennies may just trickle down the growing mountain of wealth, lodge underneath the table for the mongrels to fight over.
6 days ago · Margaret Thatcher would have despised him. She was vehemently against applause-seekers, and her greatest aspiration was to prevent a socialist government with a large majority from ever ruling in...
6 days ago · Margaret Thatcher in Kent in 1973: “Those who have always hated Mrs Thatcher should lay the blame where it truly belongs – with the Labour government of the 1970s that bankrupted this country”
Jun 12, 2024 · She worked for a brief period testing cakes and ice creams as a chemist before marriage to businessman Denis Thatcher enabled her to study for the Bar, qualifying as a barrister in 1953. Her twins Mark and Carol were born the same year.
4 days ago · And in that moment Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later. For the first time he realized that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a…
