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June 16, 2011

Feeling Like the Thatcher Era Again in UK

Zoe Williams, The Guardian

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The possibility of strikes in the public sector has seen the old tropes of left and right re-emerge with stunning speed and force.

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TAGGED: Margaret Thatcher, UK, John Lanchester, NHS, the London Review of Books

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