[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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’,33 echoed by Thatcher in 1987.34 Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]
[…] 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’,33 echoed by Thatcher in 1987.34 Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]
[PDF file]: […] phrase ‘the change of government’: ‘The thing is there were some senior people in the forces at the time who were very right-wing and they thought that Thatcher coming in gave them carte blanche to get up to all sorts of things. We heard whispers that some of these people were trying to destabilise […]
[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’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] political parties will publicly admit this (yet_ but they all must know it. They must also know that it began in 1979, with the arrival of the Thatcher government and the delusion that a modern western European society can function with low taxation. Florence SutcliffeBraithwaite reworks some of this in ‘It’s a shitshow’, her […]
[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, […]
[…] political parties will publicly admit this yet but they all must know it. They must also know that it began in 1979 with the arrival of the Thatcher government and the delusion that a modern western European society can function with low taxation. Florence SutcliffeBraithwaite reworks some of this in ‘It’s a shitshow’, her […]
