[…] be inclusive, not exclusive.’ 8 These commitments were reiterated by President Bush, French President Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and by consecutive British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Soviet security US National Security Archive, Record of conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker, Moscow, 9 February 1990 at or . 7 […]
[PDF file]: […] he would share with me. Some of it I recycled through The Rise of New Labour, and some through ‘Well, how did we get here?’ and ‘ Thatcher against the City’ in this issue. Storming teacups 2.0 I recently read on Stephen Dorril’s website his account of what he sees as his ouster from […]
[PDF file]: […] These include a batch that are enlightening as to the See ‘St Paul’s bomb plot: IS supporter Safiyya Shaikh “got cold feet”’ . 56 57 See . Thatcher administration’s thoughts on how to deal with the ‘Acid House craze’ that had emerged over the previous couple of years.58 The first document in the file […]
[PDF file]: […] that under his particular scheme of Christian charity, ‘(p)eople will not starve to death, although their standard of living may not be sustained’. Falwell singled out Margaret Thatcher, who had just become Prime Minister in Britain, for particular praise. Having thus established his conservative credentials, he went on to address the ‘culture wars’ agenda […]
[PDF file]: […] occasionally go to non-left figures such as John Major, who was prepared to countenance contacts with the IRA prior to the Good Friday Agreement – something that Thatcher would never have tolerated. 1 So far, so good. Who in their right mind wants Farage, Trump, Le Pen and their ilk bellowing their lies and […]
[PDF file]: […] friend of Israel currently portrayed by Aked. That doesn’t look likely in the present dilapidated state of British democracy. But I felt that about Britain when Margaret Thatcher continued to support apartheid South Africa in the face of growing world outrage. Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu is rapidly running out of international credit at the […]
[PDF file]: […] values were ‘market competition, private enterprise and economic stability’. NuLab was a con-job on the members of the Labour Party. In economics they really were just Mrs Thatcher in light drag. The price I remember 9/11. When the second plane hit I said to my partner something like ‘Oh shit, we’re in for it […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘shake it up’, ‘make it more efficient’, is one of the recurring themes of British politics in the last fifty years or so – particularly the post- Thatcher era. The report on the Lex Greensill affair by Nigel Boardman,3 notes on p.13: ‘. . . longstanding aspiration of successive governments to attract people from […]
[…] 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 […]
