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• Britains housing estates, 30 years on

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  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 ...
  14 hours ago

• 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 ...
  1 day ago

• Mandelson clashes with Ken Clarke over manufacturing industry

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  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.
  2 days ago

• Attacking fundamentalism with risque humor

  
  The Daily Clarity — Authority: 129
  If you have read many of our editorials you will know that we are of the mind that the best way to effect change in a country is from within. We also believe that the way you best get your point across is not by sanctions or ostracizing but by engaging. In a brave and controversial move, a new TV personality in ...
  4 days ago

• Andy Burnham will succeed Gordon Brown, its obvious

  
  News Politics — Authority: 136
  Yesterday’s Standard scooop that Andy Burnham is gearing up for a post-general election leadership challenge has triggered sniggers galore from those who see him not so much as political lightweight, more a featherweight. They should titter not. For the law of party leadership elections usually dictates that the ...
  4 days ago

• Choosing for oneself | Giles Fraser

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The values imparted by tradition, society and family make us what we are. They shouldnt be wiped away Picturing a three-year-old child apparently pleading for independence from a religious upbringing, "let me grow up and choose for myself" is the final thought of Ariane Sherines atheist poster campaign . But hang on ...
  4 days ago

• Kevin Falcon: Rebel with a Cause

  
  BCBUSINESS RSS Feed — Authority: 124
  Frances Bula Kevin Falcon, likely contender for Gordon Campbells throne, grabs the third rail of B.C. politics, health care, and discovers that challenging the status quo may not be so easy. read more
  4 days ago

• Helen Mirren to play Queen in Indira Gandhi biopic?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Dec 1 (IANS) Veteran actress Helen Mirren is reportedly set to reprise her role as British monarch Queen Elizabeth II in Indian-origin filmmaker Krishna Shah’s upcoming biopic on Indira Gandhi.Mirren, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Elizabeth in 2006 movie “The Queen”, is being lined up to ...
  4 days ago

• David Cameron mustnt miss the point of the Good Samaritan

  
  News Religion — Authority: 129
  There’s very little to add to my colleague Philip Johnston’s excellent post on David Cameron’s invocation of the Good Samaritan. I would just say that people don’t always do justice to the story of the Good Samaritan. And, as a consequence, they miss the point.Margaret Thatcher famously said that the Good ...
  4 days ago

• Would a Good Samaritan law end health and safety madness?

  
  News Politics — Authority: 136
  The last time a Tory leader mentioned the Good Samaritan there was a row. Interviewed in 1980 not long after she became prime minister, Margaret Thatcher said: “No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.” She was accused of missing the point of his ...
  5 days ago

• Bollywood and Hollywood collaborate for Indira Gandhi biopic

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Nov 30 (ANI): Indian film industry, the Bollywood, is teaming up with Hollywood on a major two-part epic on the scale of Lord Attenborough’s Gandhi telling the life story of Indira Gandhi. Boasting a budget of 40 million pounds, the biopic of the former prime minister of India who was assassinated in 1984 ...
  6 days ago

• Banking on a green industrial revolution

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Idea of a national investment bank to steer economy towards low carbon future gains ground George Osborne is floating the idea of a green investment bank to get new technologies out of the lab and into new wealth-creating businesses. Vince Cable wants a national investment bank for infrastructure, financed with a ...
  6 days ago

• Re-defining the Right Wing

  
  Life on the Blade — Authority: 92
  “The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortunes spite; revive from ashes and rise.” - - Miguel de Cervantes Shadows of traditions past cast feathers both chicken and eagle…The term right wing was hatched during the French Revolution as the seating ...
  6 days ago

• Margaret Thatcher actress Andrea Riseborough finds love with graffiti artist

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Acclaimed for her performance as a young Margaret Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley, Andrea Riseborough has, though, chosen a boyfriend with a profession unlikely to have impressed the former prime minister: a graffiti artist.
  1 week ago

• The only name theyll remember is yours, Margaret

  
  PlayPolitical.com - Conservative Party — Authority: 516
  A family affair, Michael Dobbs play about Margaret Thatchers final days in power - seen from the perspective of her husband, Denis - was broadcast on Radio 4 this afternoon. The play is available to listen for seven days following this posting but the best bit comes after 52 minutes, 30 seconds when Denis pays ...
  1 week ago

• On November 28

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 480
  On this day in ... ... 1990 , the BBC reported : The woman dubbed as the Iron Lady during her premiership made her last tearful speech as the leader of the country from the doorstep of Number 10. She was, of course, Margaret Thatcher , shown here with her political ally from across the pond, U.S. President Ronald ...
  1 week ago

• The marginals that will decide our destiny

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Telegraph View: A minority government, or a coalition, would be a wretched result.
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• How Tories handle a hung Parliament

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 136
  A BBC colleague has drawn my attention to this fascinating piece of history made available thanks to the Margaret Thatcher Foundation. It’s a memo prepared by Robert – now Lord – Armstrong on the secret coalition negotiations between Edward Heath and the Liberals after the February 1974 election. The wider file ...
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• Copenhagen Treaty/Global Warming/Global Governance

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  Due to the critical nature of the topic -- Global Warming/Global Governance -- we have elected to publish this article again less than two weeks before the President flies to Copenhagen where he is expected to sign the Copenhagen Treaty . In our opinion, the Copenhagen Treaty will set the world on the path to a ...
  1 week ago

• Winston Churchills first television screen test

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Rarely seen footage of Sir Winston Churchill, in his first screen test for television, has been unearthed to mark the 75th anniversary of party political broadcasts.
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