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3 giorni fa · Manifest Destiny to rule the lower forms of human life. Thatcher clearly divides the world into two forms of human existence. We are rich because we are inherently superior—not because we colonized the world by force of arms. The Russians are poor because they are a lower form of human life. As such, it is up to them to submit to our rule and ...
4 giorni fa · Significantly, like Thatcher and far more than Gladstone, Churchill was very popular with Americans and therefore there was a far larger market than for the speeches of most British prime ministers. Weighing in at around 8,600 pages, the Churchill collection reproduces a total of 2,360 speeches - 1,040 delivered in the Commons, and 1,320 delivered outside of Parliament or as broadcasts.
2 giorni fa · The new book examines the escalating tension between the broadcast media and the Thatcher government over various flashpoints in the Northern Irish conflict, including the 1981 hunger strike by IRA prisoners; a deadly IRA bombing attempt that Thatcher narrowly escaped; the killing of three Provisional IRA members in Gibraltar ...
3 giorni fa · Statistically he is one of the greats: he won four out of the five elections he contested; his eight years in Number 10 are beaten only by Churchill and Thatcher in the 20th century; he was the first politician since Gladstone to be Prime Minister four times, and the only post-war PM other than Churchill to be returned to Downing ...
5 giorni fa · A new populist Right will replace it. This election heralds the death of the Thatcher-Blair era. A new populist Right will replace it. Margaret Thatcher's 1979 win transformed British politics for ...
17 ore fa · The following is from Cynthia Chung’s book “The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set.” “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” – Henry John Temple, aka Lord Palmerston (Britain’s Prime Minister from 1855-1858, 1859-1865), oversaw Britain’s First Opium War (1839-1842 ...
3 giorni fa · Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving from 1979 until 1990. Her legacy is still a source of great dispute. While some regard her as a skilled politician who altered Britain’s economy and politics, others see her as the country’s worst Prime Minister, responsible for widespread social and economic upheaval.
