[…] ten pages of it; and he later confirmed, to the Times Diary, that he had got the idea from MI5. Presumably it is this section that Mrs Thatcher finds so interesting. During the House of Commons debate on the Official Secrets Bill on 15 February 1989, Norman Buchan MP mocked the Prime Minister for […]
[…] too convincing. The problem is he doesn’t give precise dates for this supposed event. One is left to suppose that it all revolves around the ‘rise of Thatcher’ – a formula he rightly refuses. The historical perspective he brings to bear down-plays the decisive significance of the 1980s. It all looks, in retrospect, as […]
[PDF file]: […] November 1981. 12 ‘Social Democratic Alliance statement,’ The Times, 29 September 1975. 13 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Lobster 11 (1986), ‘Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 19741978,’ appendix 6: ‘Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 – non Army origin’. 14 ‘New Marxism charge for privileges body’, […]
[PDF file]: […] Her ideological mentor, Sir Keith Joseph, commented in 1976 that ‘the pursuit of income inequality will turn this country into a totalitarian slum’. During the 1979 election Thatcher told BBC reporter Michael Cockerell, ‘I can’t bear Britain in decline, I just can’t’.18 Like the coup plotters, the Thatcher governments were determined to reverse a […]
[PDF file]: […] Atkinson and Elliot’s Going South, in Lobster 65,1 Simon Matthews offered a kind of alternative history of British history in the 1970s and 80s, in which Mrs Thatcher did not win the general election of 1979. Michael Morton contacted me to let me know such speculation had already been done by Andrew Marr in […]
[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton Nigel Lawson and the Thatcher U-turn Nigel Lawson, who died earlier this year, received a good press from a series of laudatory tributes and obituaries, which naturally spent a lot of time discussing his period as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989. The Thatcher government’s economic […]
[PDF file]: […] British goods out of export markets.’ (p. 247) (emphases added) Exchange rate policies and high interest rates . . . is there a theme here? Prime Minister Thatcher, Financial Secretary to the Treasury Nigel Lawson and Chancellor Geoffrey Howe were in charge of the economy during the first years of Thatcherism. Mostly it was […]
[PDF file]: […] early and mid 1980s, encouraged a trend to self-employment and a rise in the number of small businesses. Life became unpredictable and sometimes precarious for many; but Thatcher offered compensation to the old working class in the form of popular capitalism. This was based on possession of assets. These generally took two forms: either […]
[PDF file]: […] troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike Scott Newton Witness Testimony There have been persistent rumours, over the 40 years since the miners’ strike of 1984-85, that the Thatcher Government deployed the Armed Forces against the strikers. So far, not one retired soldier has come forward to admit that this happened. Nor are there any […]
[…] troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike Scott Newton Witness Testimony There have been persistent rumours, over the 40 years since the miners’ strike of 1984-85, that the Thatcher Government deployed the Armed Forces against the strikers. So far, not one retired soldier has come forward to admit that this happened. Nor are there any […]
