Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher

“Log Cabin Republicans mourns the loss of Margaret Thatcher, a conservative heroine and a maverick with the ability to convey conservative principles in a way few others could. In a gesture similar to her contemporary Ronald Reagan’s opposition to the Briggs Initiative (which inspired the founding of Log Cabin Republicans), it was Thatcher’s brave move to buck her colleagues and …

President Obama has released a statement on the death of Margaret Thatcher. With the passing of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend. As a grocer’s daughter who rose to become Britain’s first female prime minister, she stands as an example to our daughters …

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died following a stroke at the age of 87.   Via the Telegraph: Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning. Lord Bell, her spokesman, said: “It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.A …

The post below this one reminds me that I’m now allowed (I think) to mention that about a month ago I attended an advance screening of The Iron Lady. Despite my long-running morbid fascination with the Thatcher regime, I found the film surprisingly dull. Far too much time is devoted to Thatcher’s battle with Alzheimer’s as she hallucinates conversations and …

(Via – Towleroad)

Margaret Thatcher is reportedly in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s, but her handlers still know better than to allow Sarah Palin anywhere near her. A meeting with Margaret Thatcher in the centenary year of Reagan’s birth would be the perfect way of launching her bid for the Republican nomination for the 2012 US presidential election. This is what Palin told …

Publicity stills have been released for the upcoming Margaret Thatcher biopic starring Meryl Streep. Streep said, “The prospect of exploring the swathe cut through history by this remarkable woman is a daunting and exciting challenge. “I am trying to approach the role with as much zeal, fervour and attention to detail as the real Lady Thatcher possesses – I can …

The Scottish school board administrator who was a leader in the campaign against repealing the UK’s anti-gay Section 28 law has confessed to possessing and distributing child pornography. Enacted in 1986 during the Thatcher administration, Section 28 made it illegal to “promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.” Alan Smith …

The Specials, Ghost Town, 1981. One of my favorites from my year-long obsession with 2-Tone Records. Although I don’t think I quite got it at the time from Orlando, the song is a statement on Margaret Thatcher’s policies during a period of rife unemployment in the UK. I just thought it was spooky and cool.