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Kemi Badenoch: Britain’s ‘Black Magaret Thatcher’? Ha!

Friday, November 8, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Kemi Badenoch channeling Margaret Thatcher with her shadow cabinet

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: British politics, Conservative Party, diversity, Kemi Badenoch, Labour Party, Margaret Thatcher, representation, Rishi Sunak, tokenism, UK politics

Unlike Margaret Thatcher, Liz Truss’s U-turn on Tax Cuts Proves This Lady Is for Turning

Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 6:22 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
collage of photos of Liz Truss copying style of Margaret Thatcher

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.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Conservative Party Conference, Kwasi Kwarteng, liz truss, Margaret Thatcher, tax cuts

Margaret Thatcher, the ‘Iron Lady of the Western World,’ Is Dead

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 5:47 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Margaret Thatcher and the men in her life, Reagan, husband Dennis, Bush.

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.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Apartheid, British politics, Cold War, Conservative Party, Economic Inequality, Falklands War, feminism, Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan, Thatcherism, Tony Blair

Argentina vs. Britain Over the Falklands … Still?!

Friday, February 26, 2010 at 5:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Images from the Falkland War

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 pursuant to some quixotic, neocolonial notion of extraterritorial sovereignty.… Read more.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Argentina, Britain, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Falklands War, International Law, Latin America, Malvinas, Margaret Thatcher, Neocolonialism, Oil Drilling, Sovereignty Dispute, United Nations

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