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Authors: Claire Berlinski
Sovietologists
Spain
SS-18 missile
SS-20 missiles
Stagflation
Stalin, Joseph
Stalin Society
State of the Union speech
Statecraft
(Thatcher, M.)
(Thatcher, M.)
Steel industry
“Stepping Stones” report (Hoskyns, J.) Socialism in
Stockpiling, of coal: Hoskyns, J., on Kinnock on plans for Scargill and Walker and
Strasbourg
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Cold War and Reagan and Reykjavik summit proposal for Soviet effect of Thatcher, M., on
Strategy and Tactics Committee
Strikes: Britain end of history of pit closures and railway workers threat of regularity of scab death in supervisor's threat of union votes on.
See also
Coal strike, 1984
See also
Coal strike, 1984
Subsidies
Such, Such Were the Joys
(Orwell)
(Orwell)
Suez
Suicide
Supply side
Sweden
Tax fixed-rate income lowering of poll subsidized mining as Value Added
Thatcher, Denis
Thatcher, Margaret: 2002 speech of accent of on armament assassination attempt on attractiveness of Bible references of as Boudicea on British identity Bruges speech of on Bush charisma of Chirac and on Churchill Clark on class challenges of on coal strike alternative coal strike and coal strike speech of on coal strike violence Cold War and on Common Market on communists Conservative Party conference speeches of Conservative Party resignation of courage of on Delors d'Estaing and on disarmament in diva role economic criticism of economics of on EEC membership as emasculating equality speech of on European Union on Falklands War father figure for female roles of on financial aid first years of as flirt on France on free-market economics Galtieri on Germany and Gorbachev, M., and Haig meeting of Heath on honesty of Hoskyns, J., on Hoskyns, M., on in housewife role Howe and humor of on Hussein on inflation Ingham on on Iranians Iraq and Islamic extremism awareness of ITV interview of on Kinnock Kinnock conflict with Kinnock on on Korean airplane attack Kremlin meeting of,
Labour Party and on Lawson Lawson on leadership style of at Lockerbie marriage of on Marxism matron role of mentor of mining issue for Mitterand and monetarism and on nation-states negativity towards papers of pit closures under Polish visit of political start of popularity of Powell, Charles, on power loss by Reagan and re-election of resignation of second election of in Second World War Sheridan on as shrew Single European Act of on Socialism on Soviet Union Soviet Union interview for Soviet Union visit of
Statecraft
by temperament of third election of Trade unions and transformation of United Nations address of upbringing of Walker's appointment by on Walters, A. Winter of Discontent speech of women as threat to as xenophobe Zamyatin on.
See also
Thatcherism
Labour Party and on Lawson Lawson on leadership style of at Lockerbie marriage of on Marxism matron role of mentor of mining issue for Mitterand and monetarism and on nation-states negativity towards papers of pit closures under Polish visit of political start of popularity of Powell, Charles, on power loss by Reagan and re-election of resignation of second election of in Second World War Sheridan on as shrew Single European Act of on Socialism on Soviet Union Soviet Union interview for Soviet Union visit of
Statecraft
by temperament of third election of Trade unions and transformation of United Nations address of upbringing of Walker's appointment by on Walters, A. Winter of Discontent speech of women as threat to as xenophobe Zamyatin on.
See also
Thatcherism
Thatcher Revolution Falklands War and wiring diagram as start of
“Thatcher the Milk-Snatcher,”
Thatcherism: criticism of economics of free markets in Ingham on Lawson on monetarism in Socialism in
“There's only one Arthur Scargill,”
Third Way
Thompson, Fred
“Thoughts on the Coming Battle” (Lawson)
Tory Party.
See
Conservative Party
See
Conservative Party
Trade unions: 1982 Employment Act and government and Labour Party link with Powell, Charles, on Scargill on Soviet Union and Thatcher, M..
See also
Coal strike, 1984; Electrician's union; National Union of Mineworkers; Transport and General Workers Union; Union of Democratic Mineworkers
See also
Coal strike, 1984; Electrician's union; National Union of Mineworkers; Transport and General Workers Union; Union of Democratic Mineworkers
Trades Union Conference
Training
Trains
Transport and General Workers Union
Travellers Club
Treasury
Turkey
UB40
Underclass
Unemployment in Britain Friedman's ideas about inflation and rioting due to in Sweden in Yorkshire
Unemployment Benefits
Union of Democratic Mineworkers
United Nations: Falklands War response of Thatcher, M., address to
United States: Afghanistan and armament of Britain and Central Intelligence Agency on in Cold War communism and economics of Falklands War response of Grenada invasion of Hoskyns, J., on hostages from mining in in North Vietnam nuclear power of privatization in Sarbanes-Oxley Act in Soviet Union and
Vale of Belvoir
Value Added Tax
Venezuela
“Vote Yes” campaign
Wakefield.
See
Yorkshire
See
Yorkshire
Walden, Brian
Walesa, Lech
Walker, Peter: on Blair on Bush Ingham on on Iraq on Islamic extremism on miners on Scargill on Soviet Union stockpiling and strike alternative of Thatcher, M., appointment of
Warsaw Pact
“Wedgie” Benn.
See
Anthony Benn
See
Anthony Benn
Weinberger, Caspar
Welfare mining as
Wellington Room
West Germany
Wham!
Whitelaw, William Hoskyns, J., on on rioting
“Who Governs Britain?”
Wilson, Harold: EEC referendum of election of Graham and mining under resignation of
Winter of Discontent
Wiring diagram
Women: Conservative Party and Kinnock and Thatcher, M., and
Woodward, John
World Economics Forum
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World War II
Wreford-Brown, Chris
WTO.
See
World Trade Organization
See
World Trade Organization
Xenophobia
Yorkshire: miner interviews in miners in unemployment in.
See also
Orgreave, South Yorkshire
See also
Orgreave, South Yorkshire
Yorkshire Miner
Young Communist League
Zamyatin, Leonid
Zeebrugge harbor, Belgium
Zulu
1
John William Middendorf II, U.S. diplomat, telephone conversation, March 9, 2007.
2
One could argue for quite some time about these definitions, and many do. Karl Marx did
not
classify communism as a species of socialism; socialism, as he defined it, was the stage between the inevitable proletarian revolution and the emergence of communism. These doctrinal debates are interesting, if you like that sort of thing, but they are not my point. My point concerns the locus of property rights: If they tend to reside with the state, I define the system as socialist. So did Thatcher.
not
classify communism as a species of socialism; socialism, as he defined it, was the stage between the inevitable proletarian revolution and the emergence of communism. These doctrinal debates are interesting, if you like that sort of thing, but they are not my point. My point concerns the locus of property rights: If they tend to reside with the state, I define the system as socialist. So did Thatcher.
3
“I'm a Conviction Politician Like Maggie, Brown Taunts Cameron,”
Evening Standard,
September 5, 2007.
Evening Standard,
September 5, 2007.
4
Speech to Grantham Conservatives, March 4, 1977, Guildhall, Grantham. Thatcher MSS (digital collection), doc. 103329. All documents from this collection may be consulted at
www.margaretthatcher.org
.
www.margaretthatcher.org
.
5
E. J. Hobsbawm,
Industry and Empire: The Making of Modern English Society, 1750 to the Present Day
(Pantheon, 1968), p. 1.
Industry and Empire: The Making of Modern English Society, 1750 to the Present Day
(Pantheon, 1968), p. 1.
6
January 8, 1975, Ford Library (NSC NSA Memcons Box 8).
7
January 16, 1979, Hansard HC [960/1524â61].
8
The OECD, or Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, is a club for rich countries.
9
“Come on, there weren't
that
many corpses,” Thatcher's detractors tend to respond when this point is raised. Readers may decide for themselves how many corpses would need to be piled on their streets before the situation struck them as a legitimate cause for concern. My own view is that even one would be a corpse too manyâunless it belonged to one of my enemies, obviouslyâbut perhaps I'm excessively fastidious.
that
many corpses,” Thatcher's detractors tend to respond when this point is raised. Readers may decide for themselves how many corpses would need to be piled on their streets before the situation struck them as a legitimate cause for concern. My own view is that even one would be a corpse too manyâunless it belonged to one of my enemies, obviouslyâbut perhaps I'm excessively fastidious.
10
PBS interview with Cecil Parkinson, trade minister in Thatcher's first government, for
Commanding Heights:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/pdf/int_cecilparkinson.pdf
.
Commanding Heights:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/pdf/int_cecilparkinson.pdf
.
11
Margaret Thatcher,
The Downing Street Years, 1979â1990
(HarperCollins, 1993), p. 20.
The Downing Street Years, 1979â1990
(HarperCollins, 1993), p. 20.
12
Peter Rawlinson,
A Price Too High: An Autobiography
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), pp. 246â247.
A Price Too High: An Autobiography
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), pp. 246â247.
13
Keith Joseph speech at Upminster, June 22, 1974, Thatcher MSS (digital collection), doc. 110604.
14
Speech at St. Lawrence Jewry, City of London, March 31, 1978. Oxford University Press CD-ROM of Margaret Thatcher's Complete Public Statements, 78/039.
15
Speech to the Church of Scotland General Assembly, May 21, 1988, Thatcher MSS (digital collection), doc. 107246.
16
Speech to Conservative rally at Cardiff, April 16, 1979, Thatcher MSS (digital collection), doc. 104011.
17
Conservative Party Manifesto, April 1979, Conservative Central Office, THCR 2â7â1â23 (4). All documents prefaced by “THCR” may be consulted among the papers of Baroness Thatcher at the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge.
18
There are many versions of this story; it seems reasonable to conclude that if these are not precisely the words he used, they are close enough and certainly convey the mood of the encounter.
19
The Labour politician Healey was at the time favored to win his party's leadership election.
20
U.S. Embassy in London to State Department, “Margaret Thatcher: Some First Impressions,” U.S. State Department Archives, February 16, 1975.
www.margaretthatcher.org/document/E85DA4E0A8144A278F350BCF08F7F80A.pdf
.
www.margaretthatcher.org/document/E85DA4E0A8144A278F350BCF08F7F80A.pdf
.
21
Speech at Kensington Town Hall, “Britain, Awake,” Chelsea, January 19, 1976, Thatcher MSS (digital collection), doc. 102939.
22
Sir Nicholas Henderson, “Britain's Decline: Its Causes and Consequences,” March 31, 1979, Diplomatic Report No. 129/79, Thatcher MSS (digital collection), doc. 110961. Almost all of this document was published in the
Economist
on June 2, 1979.
Economist
on June 2, 1979.
23
Speech to Conservative Party Conference, October 10, 1980, Brighton, Thatcher MSS (digital collection), doc. 104431.
24
When you see the words “council houses,” think “housing projects.”
25
Interview with Baron Charles Powell, June 15, 2007, London.
26
1979 Conservative Manifesto, p. 6.
27
Why Cambridge? After all,
Oxford
was her alma mater. But Oxford failed to award her an honorary degree, a deliberate snub to protest her parsimonious funding of higher education. Every previous prime minister educated at Oxford had been given one. She was neither the sort to forgive this kind of insult nor fail to return it; many years later, delivering a memorial to Keith Joseph, she was still furious enough to take a nice swipe at “those raging, spitting Trotskyite crowds at our great liberal centers of learning.” So Cambridge got her papers. Churchill College was the obvious choice; Churchill, after all, was the figure with whom she most wished to be associated.
Oxford
was her alma mater. But Oxford failed to award her an honorary degree, a deliberate snub to protest her parsimonious funding of higher education. Every previous prime minister educated at Oxford had been given one. She was neither the sort to forgive this kind of insult nor fail to return it; many years later, delivering a memorial to Keith Joseph, she was still furious enough to take a nice swipe at “those raging, spitting Trotskyite crowds at our great liberal centers of learning.” So Cambridge got her papers. Churchill College was the obvious choice; Churchill, after all, was the figure with whom she most wished to be associated.
28
John Hoskyns, “Stepping Stones,” draft, undated (circa 1977), THCR 2â6â1â247 (6) and (7), p. 46â47.
29
Memorandum from John Hoskyns to Thatcher, October 3, 1977, THCR 2â6â1â247 (410), p. 1.
30
THCR 2â6â1â247 (411), p. 2.
31
John Hoskyns, “Stepping Stones Review,” November 8, 1978, THCR 2â6â1â247 (442), p. 2.
32
David Cameron is the current leader of the Conservative Party. PPE, short for Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, is a famous degree course at Oxford.
33
John Hoskyns
, Just in Time: Inside the Thatcher Revolution
(Aurum Press, 2000), p. 8.
, Just in Time: Inside the Thatcher Revolution
(Aurum Press, 2000), p. 8.
34
Ibid.
,
p. 11.
,
p. 11.
35
John Hoskyns, “Stepping Stones Review,” November 8, 1978, THCR 2â6â1â247 (447), p. 7.
36
“Stepping Stones,” November 14, 1977, THCR 2â6â1â248 (237), p. 55.
37
THCR 2â6â1â248 (32), p. 18.
38
THCR 2â6â1â248 (254), p. 29.
39
“Stepping Stones” draft, THCR 2â6â1â247 (6) and (7), pp. 46â47.
40
“Stepping Stones,” November 14, 1977, THCR 2â6â1â248 (257), p. 37.
41
Chris Patten, “Implementing Our Strategy,” December 11, 1977, THCR 2â6â1â246 (13), p. 2.
42
Note from Nigel Lawson to Thatcher, “Thoughts on âImplementing Our Strategy,'” January 15, 1978, THCR 2â6â1â246 (27), p. 1. Lawson is now even more famous for having fathered Nigella Lawson, the voluptuous television chef.
43
Memorandum from Nigel Lawson to Sir Michael Fraser, “Thoughts on the Coming Battle,” October 15, 1973, THCR 2â6â1â246 (34), p. 1 and (35), p. 2.
44
Memorandum from Alan Howarth to Thatcher, December 16, 1977, THCR 2â6â1â250 (16) and (17), pp. 2â3.
45
Memorandum from Alan Howarth to Thatcher, January 4, 1978, THCR 2â6â1â250 (26).
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