RealClearWorld
Advertisement

January 31, 2013

Thatcher's Hometown Prefers to Forget Her

Carsten Volkery, Der Spiegel

AP Photo

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was born and raised in the English town of Grantham. The local council does little to remember its famous daughter, even though it's been offered a statue of the Iron Lady currently gathering dust in a London cellar.

Read Full Article ››

TAGGED: UK, Margaret Thatcher

RECOMMENDED ARTICLES

January 28, 2013
Will Shale Gas Save Britain?
Theodore Dalrymple, Standpoint
According to the Daily Telegraph, the chief executive of Centrica, the company that owns British Gas, Mr Sam Laidlaw, said at Davos that hopes were misplaced that development of shale gas deposits in Britain would be a miracle... more ››
January 29, 2013
Europe Haunted by Myth of the 'Lazy Mob'
Ha-Joon Chang, The Guardian
It suits the wealthy to turn the debate about poverty into a morality tale, but the reality is that inequality is structural. more ››
January 29, 2013
Icelanders Don't Have to Pay for Bad Euro Bailouts
Wall St. Journal
Iceland is still reeling from the spectacular collapse of its banking system in the fall of 2008. Its government remains largely shut out of international capital markets, and its citizens labor under onerous foreign-exchange... more ››
January 29, 2013
Why No Rioting over Bibi Cartoon?
Raheem Kassam, The Commentator
Only on a BBC radio call-in show in Britain could you have heard listeners phoning in to express how the West would get what it has coming to it for a peasant-like film being uploaded to YouTube by some anonymous character in... more ››
|