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Kemi Badenoch has become the first black woman to lead a major UK political party but can she reunite the Conservative party? She’s hailed Margaret Thatcher as her inspiration and says she’s flattered by the comparisons to Thatcher. (Good Morning Britain, November 4, 2024) Badenoch channeling Thatcher too literally No doubt, Kemi Badenoch is as… Read more.
Liz Truss became UK prime minister on September 6. Except that, she did so by channeling Margaret Thatcher so effectively, she became a meme. Here is how I chimed in on the viral ridicule in the comments section to a July 17 report on her campaign in The Guardian: Liz Truss is fashioning her campaign… Read more.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. This was how the UK Evening News quoted Margaret Thatcher, then the Conservative MP for Finchley, turning male chauvinism on its head. No doubt it delighted her audience at the National Council of the Townwomen’s Guilds in… Read more.
The Falklands are little more than a bleak and desolate cluster of rocks dotting the South Atlantic Ocean, some 8,000 miles from Britain. Therefore, when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dispatched the Royal Navy there in 1982 to oust Argentine forces, I thought she was acting on some quixotic, neocolonial notion of extraterritorial sovereignty. Nothing… Read more.
