Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher

Tracy LDN: Margaret Thatcher- The Downing Street Years

Source: Tracey LDN: Margaret Thatcher- The Downing Street Years Margaret Thatcher coming to power in Britain in 1979 is very similar to Ronald Reagan coming to power in America in 1981. Both countries economies were in very bad shape with high … Continue reading

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BBC: Tories, The Course of Margaret Thatcher (2001)

. I’m not an expert on British politics obviously, but I do follow their politics and government similar to how British political junkies follow American politics. And what the British Labour Party went through from 1997 after they just lost … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: Firing Line With William F. Buckley: Margaret Thatcher: Capitalism & a Free Society (1975)

Source:The New Democrat  This is what a so-called smart Conservative sounds like in Margaret Thatcher and again conservative by British standards, which means lest socialist than Social Democrats. Lady Thatcher wasn’t arguing against the safety net, actually she believed in … Continue reading

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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: Speech at the White House (12/17/79)

Source:The New Democrat This speech was given about three weeks after the Iranian hostage crisis in which Iranian Islamists took fifty Americans, working at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, hostage in November of 1979.  This was Thatcher’s first visit to … Continue reading

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The Fiscal Times: Liz Peak: ‘Margaret Thatcher Was Right: A Dependent Society Will Fail’

Source:The Fiscal Times– Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Conservative, United Kingdom) and President Ronald W. Reagan (Republican, United States) and that’s all I know about this photo. Source:The Daily Times “The Bitch is Dead,” read the banner paraded through the streets … Continue reading

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The Daily Telegraph: The Making of Margaret

Source:The FreeState Margaret Thatcher, in some ways was very lucky because she arrived on the seen as first Leader of The Opposition in the United Kingdom in the mid 1970s. And then of course Prime Minister in 1979 at the … Continue reading

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Reason: John Blundell: Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep and The Iron Lady: Fact vs. Fiction

Source:The Daily Post I saw the Iron Lady, the Meryl Streep bio movie about former United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher back in May. And I was expecting a great movie about one of the most important world leaders, in … Continue reading

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Uncommon Knowledge: Peter Robinson & Charles Moore: The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Source:The FreeState The situation that Margaret Thatcher inherited from Socialist Labor Party in Britain in 1979, is not much different from the situation that Ronald Reagan inherited from the Democratic Party in America economically in 1981. There were some differences … Continue reading

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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: ‘There is No Such Thing as Public Money’

Source:The FreeState– The Iron Lady Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Conservative, United Kingdom) Source:The FreeState  “Margaret Thatcher addresses the Conservative Party conference in 1983.” From Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher When former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says: “There’s no such thing as … Continue reading

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Hoover Institution: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson- Charles Moore: On Margaret Thatcher

Source:The FreeState “Charles Moore, a former editor at the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, and Spectator Magazine, discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the “Iron Lady,” Margaret Thatcher.” From the Hoover Institution If you want to know what classical conservatism is … Continue reading

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