Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

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[PDF file]: […] spend sufficient money maintaining it.’ (p. 215) Grenfell Tower was completed in 1974 and built to the mandatory ParkerMorris standards for space, heating and amenity which Margaret Thatcher effectively ended in 1980. The wealthy part of reportedly the most unequal borough in the country – home at one time to Cameron’s ‘Notting Hill set’ […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] beginning of the decade about the KGB shooting the Pope. After I wrote that paragraph I was looking at volume 1 of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher and noticed that he has it that the shooting of the Pope was probably the work of the KGB. Probably? Moore’s caution is striking. Hadn’t the […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

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[PDF file]: […] academic learning and wealth creation’, so much so that ‘the country appears to be betraying its commitment – however distant – to meritocracy’. He actually argues that Thatcher, Major and Blair tried to squeeze the ‘rejuvenated aristocracy’ out of politics – which rather misses the point about their governments. Each of them which presided […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] actual evidence of its existence. The DVD did not originate in Shrimpton’s mind. As far as I can tell, it originated in the mind of self-styled former Thatcher advisor, the late Christopher Story, who also (along with one time Joint Intelligence Committee chairman Percy Cradock) believed that the fall of Communism was a hoax […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] British conservative movement. In some ways Thatcher’s children really are Rand’s offspring. It was Rand who first said ‘There is no such thing as society’,84 echoed by Thatcher in 1987. Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] years. See ‘Amway Corp. sales fell 8 percent to $10.8 billion in 2014’ at or or or . See ‘David Attenborough and Paul McCartney rejected by Denis Thatcher for Downing Street party’ by Sam Russell for The Independent, 21 July 2018 at or . 8 See the correspondence and list at or . Sykes, […]

Back to the future (again)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] again and to see pictures of them doing their stuff all those years ago. On page 534 – yes, it’s that long – Robert Elms proclaims: ‘ Thatcher might have won elections, but culturally we won’; and ‘Look at Britain now: it’s a society where racism is absolutely frowned on; where gay marriage is […]

View from the Bridge 89

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[…] British conservative movement. In some ways Thatcher’s children really are Rand’s offspring. It was Rand who first said ‘There is no such thing as society’,20 echoed by Thatcher in 1987.21 Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]

View from the bridge

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[…] took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who knew no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his […]

View from the bridge

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[…] took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who knew no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his […]

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