[PDF file]: […] . The police were a vital arm of the British state in the Eighties as bloody battles were fought against criminals, football hooligans and trade unionists. Mrs Thatcher needed the police to take on the miners. She was, and is, an icon to Tories like myself. It pains me to write this, but we […]
[…] 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’,48 echoed by Thatcher in 1987.49 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
