Margaret Thatcher

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• Margaret Thatcher not dead, but moggy ‘Thatcher’ is!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  London, Nov 14 (ANI): A text message, which stated, “Thatcher has died”, is said to have sparked off a diplomatic flurry among members of Canada’s parliament.Stephen Harper, Canada’s conservative prime minister, received the news that Baroness Thatcher, 84, had passed away via mobile or Blackberry at a soiree ...
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• Space exploration: Taking the long view

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Right on cue, a heavy box of instruments swooped high above the island of Java yesterday and then accelerated away into space, for the last time. It was a European spacecraft called Rosetta , and yesterday was its final loop past the home planet, as it gathered speed for a journey that will take it to a distant ...
  16 hours ago

• Thatcher death text sparks diplomatic flurry among Canadian Conservatives

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  A text message reading "Thatcher has died" set off a diplomatic flurry among members of Canadas parliament at a black tie dinner this week local media reported on Thursday.
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• Murdoch v the PM? Its what we call asymmetric warfare | Marina Hyde

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Many incumbents before Brown have greased up to News Corps boss. And none have known when hell pull the rug away At last, the perfect motto to place above the lintel of No 10. This week, the prime ministers official spokesman made a little speech which should be hewn into that central London terrace, the better to ...
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• Airbrushing the Tory past | Ed Miliband

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Camerons rhetoric on poverty may sound new, but his prescriptions go straight back to Thatcher According to the great Guardian journalist Hugo Young, before admitting people to her circle Margaret Thatcher would ask, "Is he one of us?" It is clear from the speech on poverty David Cameron gave in Youngs name earlier ...
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• Profile: Angela Merkel and the talent of seeming ordinary

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Angela Merkel the German Chancellor has the gift of making Germany seem routine and worthy of little apprehension
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• Swines

  
  Inveresk Street Ingrate — Authority: 123
  My heart raced for a moment .
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• Thatcher dies – thats moggy, not Maggie

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The letter of condolence was almost written before Canadian Conservatives realised some alarming news was about a cat BlackBerries flickered like summer lightning as the appalling – yet not entirely unexpected – news spread among 2,000 Canadian Conservatives gathered in Toronto for a black-tie dinner. Rarely has ...
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• Thatcher Dead! [Death]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 872
  The cat! We mean the cat! Sorry, we didnt mean to confuse you, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper . We just had no idea Canada was so gullible! Transport Minister John Baird named his cat "Thatcher" (ugh). The cat died. Baird texted his friends. And then the Canadian government began preparing a statement on ...
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• Margaret Thatcher is not dead. But Thatcher is.

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 606
  Red faces in Canada this morning. A text message sent by the Minister for Transport, reading “Thatcher has died”, carried via Chinese whispers until it reached the Canadian Prime Minister. The news broke at a black tie gala event last night in Toronto. Diplomats called Downing Street and Buckingham Palace to find ...
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• Thatcher has died – how a text message caused diplomatic panic

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Canadian PM asked aide to prepare official statement before identity of Thatcher in question was revealed A nice story that has been running on the international wires has just been picked up by the BBC . Its about the moment when the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, was told that Lady Thatcher had died. ...
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• Thatcher the cat passes away!

  
  A View from Middle England by Arden Forester — Authority: 130
  John Major had trouble with the Downing Street cat Humphrey in those last episodes of Spitting Image. The cat had a fairly low opinion of the prime ministers abilities as he struggled to keep his cabinet in place. Now it appears that Margaret Thatchers namesake , a beloved cat belonging to the Canadian transport ...
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• News of John Bairds cats death goes international

  
  A BCer in Toronto — Authority: 511
  News of the death of John Bairds cat, Thatcher, and how the Conservative government actually called 10 Downing Street to confirm the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (the Iron Lady is very much alive) has gone international with coverage in German news magazine, Der Spiegel . Via Google ...
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• Cutting Edge presents The Fall of the Wall….a 20 year retrospective

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 573
  The Cutting Edge-atalk show announces our latest program entitled:“The fall of the wall….a 20 year retrospective” which relates to our coverage of the following event.On November 6th, “to commemorate  the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and the ...
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• News from home

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 130
  There was a plan for tonight’s blog: Put some photos up, talk about being in Malaysia, travel, et cetera. But there’s a hitch in the plan, a hiccup. The photos won’t upload. Really, the blog was going to be mostly the photos. I forgot to change my camera settings from RAW to JPG, so it was a pain in the ...
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• Bernard Ingham or Alastair Campbell? Its no contest

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 798
  Thirty years ago, Lobby briefings were notified to political reporters by cryptic notices pinned to a noticeboard in cupboard ( I kid you not) which said things like “Blue Mantle at 4″  – which meant the Prime Minister’s press secretary (one Bernard Ingham) would brief the Lobby, unattributably, at that time. ...
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• Where “Global Warming” and “Peak Oil” meet

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  Where “Global Warming” and “Peak Oil” meet Not Sylvia Night – November 11, 2009 Where “Global Warming” and “Peak Oil” meet That place, of course, is the world´s financial market. “Human Caused Climate Change” is a financial scam, so is the “Peak Oil” paradigm of catastrophic ...
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• Hillary Clinton scrubs Ronald Reagan from history

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 798
  It’s bad enough that President Obama could not be bothered to attend the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But Hillary Clinton’s refusal to even acknowledge the role played by Ronald Reagan in the Wall’s demise as well as the downfall of Communism was highly insulting ...
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• A Night on the Red Carpet

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 494
  Berlin is a long way from Los Angeles but I watched those giant dominoes topple live on CNN, as I pounded away on the Stairmaster at the gym this morning. I had a little tear in my eye watching the old TV footage. What a victory for the people that was. Twenty years is nothing in history but seems like a lifetime ...
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• Tory trade union proposals – too extreme for Thatcher

  
  Chuka Umunna - Streatham Labour — Authority: 124
  The Conservatives are set to adopt anti-trade union legislation which would go much further than Margeret Thatcher ever dared to tread with plans which would shackle workers by effectively removing unions’ ability to take industrial action. They want to create new and prohibitively high turnout thresholds for ...
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