[…] the tough world of NUM politics, largely keeping from public view his disagreements with Mick McGahey and Arthur Scargill and others while facing the venom of Margaret Thatcher and the 190 Summer 2010 power of the state.1 1 This is an insider’s view of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, the subsequent closures and the working […]
[PDF file]: […] shallow and temporary. (pp. 2/3) The author traces this well-footnoted and indexed history with academic rigour and journalistic anecdote. He shows how the free-market evangelists of the Thatcher and Reagan era repeated the myth that the great prize for a widening gap would be faster growth and a new economic dynamism that would raise […]
[PDF file]: […] and writer. His most recent book, on the Kennedy assassination, 1 There is one possible caveat here. It has been reported that during the Falklands/Malvinas war Mrs Thatcher threatened to use nuclear weapons against Argentina unless the French state gave the British the codes to disable the electronics of the French-manufactured Exocet missiles which […]
[PDF file]: […] nearly thirty years, she started trying to tell her story in 2003, apparently motivated by disgust at the covert sale of arms to Saddam Hussein under Margaret Thatcher and by utter despair at the aggressive foreign policy of Ariel Sharon and the Likud regime in Israel. Sharon’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon killed her lover. […]
[PDF file]: […] that book’s exploration of role of the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the Tory right triggered by the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. And I was interested in Labour Party history. (I was a member in the 80s and 90s.) I haven’t methodically revisited CC since but relevant odds […]
[…] the bridge Robin Ramsay The right madness I was flipping through Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable (Fontana, 1995) about the influence of the ‘think tanks’ on the Thatcher revolution, and noticed a quote from a 1968 Fabian pamphlet on the then politically insignificant ‘New Right’ – essentially the Institute for Economic Affairs – and […]
[PDF file]: […] the tough world of NUM politics, largely keeping from public view his disagreements with Mick McGahey and Arthur Scargill and others while facing the venom of Margaret Thatcher and the power of the state. This is an insider’s view of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, the subsequent closures and the working of the NUM. But […]
[PDF file]: […] will of the party is void: Sturgeon is the party. The party payroll is as close to a cult as I have witnessed in mainstream UK politics. Thatcher experienced greater dissension within the Tories at the height of her popularity. There are two main schools of thought regarding Sturgeon’s inaction in progressing independence. * […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘extremely serious’. Of course not all of those should be laid at the door of the SYP as forces from around the country were deployed by the Thatcher government during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. May does not seem unhappy at taking them all on. She has long targeted the Police Federation for criticism2 5 […]
[PDF file]: […] were described in ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’ in Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). property dealer who had several times hosted prime-minister Margaret Thatcher at his home in Preston. More delivered to Bill Harrison financial profiles of the Labour leader of Preston, the deputy Labour leader of Preston and their […]
