Posts Tagged ‘Margaret Thatcher’
Is the democratic Left finally turning against the EU?
“I fell out of love with the EU, and so should you,” writes Mehdi Hassan in the current New Statesman. I hope Mehdi won’t demur when I describe him as a man of the firm Left: open-minded,... Read More
Margaret Thatcher's struggle against the strikes, the 'enemy within', was a fight for democracy
Unless one lived through the very dark days of the Seventies and the early Eighties it is hard to imagine the feelings of those of us who were engaged in the struggle against "the enemy within". We we... Read More
Why Thatcherism without Margaret Thatcher might have been more popular
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What kind of leader would Boris Johnson be?
August is supposed to be quiet in the Westminster village. Of course it is not always so, as we have been reminded by the marking of the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. Events o... Read More
Margaret Thatcher didn't mind being hated. Tony Blair does – very much indeed
I wonder how tomorrow's Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty, hosted by the Centre for Policy Studies and sponsored by the Telegraph, will address one of the indisputable facts of her premiership: ... Read More
In death, Margaret Thatcher still leads the world's conservatives
Only one name could have brought so many political and intellectual leaders together in one place. More than a year after her funeral, Margaret Thatcher remains the queen of global conservatism. The... Read More
The Thatcher conference on Liberty promises to be a landmark conservative event
I've written an article for the Telegraph's Education section: Thatcher's descendants are in danger of losing the culture war. It's a preview of what I'm intending to say at the Thatcher Conference on... Read More
The British elite called Ronald Reagan an 'unsophisticated' cowboy? How wrong they were
What do we all remember Ronald Reagan for? Being a great communicator, rescuing the US economy and winning the Cold War. So it's extraordinary to discover that in 1982 British diplomats concluded that... Read More
Ed Miliband wants to be 'the first Jewish PM'? Ed: meet Benjamin Disraeli
Ed Miliband says he wants to be Britain’s “first Jewish PM”. He apparently has no ambitions to be its most historically informed. As any fule kno, Benjamin Disraeli – one of the greatest PMs ... Read More
Ding dong, Maria Miller's gone: crisis management in an age of permanent crisis
listen to ‘Ding dong, Maria Miller's gone: crisis management in an age of permanent crisis’ on Audioboo Maria Miller has resigned. After the public's patience ran out, David Cameron finally pulled... Read More
