Hearing the news of Margret Thatcher’s death I felt a sudden urge to express a deep felt anger about her, about her policies and the critically wrong path on which she led the Britain of my teen years. I turned to my wife and asked “how do you express outrage in public” she is a professor of urban studies and therefore has studied such ideas. She stopped for a moment and then said to me “eloquent writing”. This was not the simple answer I was looking for. It then struck me that what she said was “eloquent writing” not “your eloquent writing”, so here is another collected reading with 5 eloquently written pieces that take thatcher apart piece by piece and reveal failed public, international and monetary policies and show her shameful legacy. – KP
Category: 65 CR – Thatcherism a catastrophe story
BBC to play Ding Dong in chart show despite anti-Thatcher Facebook push
Thatcherism was a national catastrophe that still poisons us
We could go on. Britain was one of the most equal Western European countries before the Thatcherite project began, and is now one of the most unequal.
Source : Independent
Glenda Jackson launches tirade against Thatcher in tribute debate
No minutes silence for Thatcher is testament to footballs bad relationship with the former PM
She used this realm when it suited her, asking British athletes to boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for instance. (Some competitors did stay away but many more, including a disgusted Sebastian Coe, refused.)
Source : Independent
The mayfair set
The Mayfair Set is a series of films that study how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the Thatcher government in Britain during the 1980s. The series focuses on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith and Tiny Rowland — all members of The Clermont club in the 1960s, and how their distinct financial roles influenced the Thatcher government…