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Published in: openDemocracyUKGovernments and ‘soft power’ in international affairs: Britain and the boycott of the 1980 Moscow OlympicsA look back ahead of the World Athletic Championships 2013, hosted by Moscow, to that of the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAn evening with the Iron LadyDavid Elstein vividly recalls Thatcher coming to the studio for a 'live', hour long interview, followed by two...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThatcher's funeral - the crowd, the media and reality
Despite shameless media fawning the streets were in fact eerily quiet; the biggest crowd out was the police. But...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe remember: an obituaryIn Britain and the world, this is a day of remembrance - in grief or in anger. But what should we remember - and who?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy I left the Civil Service: Thatcher, trust and democracy
A former economic civil servant tells her story of working under Thatcher. The change of culture in Whitehall and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDing DongRadical artist Peter Kennard was a chief satirist of Thatcher during her era. On the day of her funeral, we revisit...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe 'Patriot' Prime MinisterIt is time to disassociate Thatcher from liberty. Look at her era of repressing dissent, protest and freedom of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThatcher's lessons for social democrats
Thatcher utilised three emergent themes: globalisation, social liberalism and the reconfiguration of class...
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Published in: Shine A LightThatcher, a woman? Not on my termsOn the day that Members of Parliament paid tribute to Britain's first woman Prime Minister, the Labour MP and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThatcher: Al Jazeera interview with Anthony Barnett
A video interview with Anthony Barnett for Al Jazeera. The cult of the leader, North Sea Oil, the sale of weapons to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThatcher - black gold or red bricks?Thatcher did not save Britain from economic decline. In many respects her economic performance was poor, even with...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Lady is not Returning: Novara radio on Thatcher
The Novara radio show marks the death of Margaret Thatcher with nuanced, wide-ranging, radical analysis of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGames with shadows: living in Thatcher’s Scotland
We live in Thatcher’s Britain - that statement is obvious, yet contentious and deeply divisive. And this is all the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat Thatcher did for Wales
Which politician did most to secure devolution for Wales? Margaret Thatcher. The miners’ strike was the beginning of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe death of a class warrior: Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
Thatcher did not seek to win over 'hearts and minds'. Rather she attacked the social bases of collective thought and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThatcher was not the answer but a new direction was needed
Before advocating a return to a pre-Thatcher era of socialism and solidarity, remember the suffocating Labour years...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThatcher and the words no one mentions: North Sea Oil
Britain will never recover from being saved by Margaret Thatcher.
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
