Margaret Thatcher

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• Earth and it’s inhabitants need more, not less, CO2. More CO2 means:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  * More Plant Growth * Plants need less water * More food per acre * More robust habitats and ecosystems CO2 is Earth’s greatest airborne fertilizer. Without it – No Life On Earth! www.co2isgreen.org www.plantsneedco2.org - – - - Global warming or global governance? - -Interviews of climate scientists and ...
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• On December 19

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 479
  On this day in ... ... 1984 (25 years ago today) , in Beijing, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the Joint Sino-British Declaration , which provided that Hong Kong would be returned to China in 1997, thus " end[ing] 155 years of British rule in the colony" and ...
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• Boy or Girl?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
      But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. Youre looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. George H. W. Bush The term gender identity was used in a press release, November 21, 1966 to announce the new clinic for transsexuals at The Johns ...
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• The Right to Buy: thirty years on

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 123
  It is now almost exactly 30 years since one of Mrs Thatcher’s iconic social policies was launched. On 20 December 1979 the Conservative government published a Housing Bill which included the Right to Buy. This allowed council tenants to purchase their dwelling at a discount of up to 50 per cent. Since then over ...
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• Upwards in brightness and joy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Steve Bells If ...
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• Sir Richard OBrien obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Industrial relations expert at odds with Margaret Thatcher Sir Richard OBrien, who has died aged 89, was a remarkable practitioner in the handling of industrial relations, bringing to the practice a special mix of Christian-inspired ethics combined with a social discipline that was unique at a time of great tension ...
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• John Mackey, health care, Friedman, and wisdom…

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 114
  The problem with the free market is that the profit motive trumps all other concerns, which leads to monopolization of societies by powerful corporations. – MeI’ve been pretty hands-off with the whole health-care debate in more public settings.  I don’t shy away from talking about it around the dinner table at ...
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• Gordon Brown and Margaret Thatcher on climate change

  
  Ellee Seymour — Authority: 492
  Margaret Thatcher, 6 December 1990 at the 2nd World Climate Change : “The threat to our world comes not only from tyrants and their tanks. It can be more insidious though less visible. The danger of global warming is as yet unseen, but real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices, so that we do not ...
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• Iron Age [Party Politics]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 804
  For now, the fashion for Tory chic goes on....(including) T-shirts printed with portraits of political leaders. The Thatcher print is particularly commanding. How is it selling? "Better than any of the others," says the store manager. [ Guardian ]
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• Elton John: Gordon Brown doesnt understand AIDS problem

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 682
  Gay singer Elton John has said he cannot guarantee the Labour Party his vote. Speaking to the Daily Telegraphs Mandrake column at his AIDS Foundation Winter Ball, the star said he did not feel Brown had grasped the "extent" of the rise in HIV infections.
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• Todays Dispatch From Planet Krauthammer

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 141
  The increasingly nutty columnist unearths a novel historical counterfactual: In the 1970s and early 80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. Why not them? So in ...
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• The Margaret Thatcher NUT Cracker, In Pictures

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 626
  THIS Christmas why not get the Margaret Thatcher nut cracker. Or is that NUT cracker? The National Union of Teachers are a Bolshie bunch who not content with joining institutions to institutionalise the young, join a union to immerse themselves deep within institutions. Walnuts, almonds, Brazils, filberts, chestnuts ...
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• Windfall taxes are nothing new

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Margaret Thatcher introduced a levy on banks in 1981 • New Labour targeted utilities after coming to power in 1997 Windfall taxes are often championed by the political left as a good way of recouping cash from "fat cats" seen to have made excessive profits. But in fact Margaret Thatchers government was one of ...
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• End the Fed? Or End the Market Economy?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 532
  End the Fed?  Or End the Market Economy? By Shamus Cooke When Republican Congressman Ron Paul recently introduced legislation to audit the Federal Reserve, diverse sections of the political spectrum applauded. And rightfully so.  The Fed’s role in the still-developing bank bailouts is one of utter secrecy; the ...
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• Thatcher: the political case for EC membership

  
  Blogactiv - EU Blog Platform — Authority: 152
  Margaret Thatcher, speaking in the British House of Commons on 8 April 1975, during the referendum debate on EC membership: “First, the case for being in the Common Market. I believe, with a number of hon. Members who spoke yesterday, that the paramount case for being in is the political case for peace and ...
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• Britains housing estates, 30 years on

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A controversial housing policy launched by the Conservatives in 1979 played a key part in three poll victories – but had consequences that last to this day. Tracy McVeigh asks families on the Essex estate that became a symbol of Thatcherism how it changed them It was the change of gates that would let the ...
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• The Palin Plethora

  
  brianlee — Authority: 137
  An interesting analysis from http://www.badeagle.com/ about Sarah Palins book, and to a lesser extent, Carrie Prejeans. He actually praisies the books and authors but gives a commentary about the conditions that they are being presented in. You can continue to get interesting commentary like this by following this ...
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• There is still a lot learning to do about the real meaning of “getting out of the way of markets”

  
  Tea with FT — Authority: 416
  Sir Martin Wolf writes “Gone, too, must be the assumption that governments should merely get out of the way of markets”, “A weakened Britain enters the post post-Thatcher era”, December 4. Absolutely not! When we see governments ordering the banks to hold significant amounts of “high quality” government ...
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• Mandelson clashes with Ken Clarke over manufacturing industry

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  Business secretary Lord Mandelson on Thursday clashed with his Tory counterpart Ken Clarke over their respective parties treatment of the manufacturing sector in the UK.
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• Nevil Shute: profile

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  Nevile Shute worked with Barnes Wallis and once wrote a gripping novel about metal fatigue. As A Town Like Alice and other classic works are reprinted, Philip Hensher salutes the literary craftsman
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