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The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

The ‘who said it’ quiz of the year! Who claimed to break the rules without knowing – and who enraged social media?

Here are some of 2022’s most memorable quotes on Ukraine, the Queen and Trump, but can you remember who said them?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2022

Couple split opinion with plans to name unborn child Thatcher

The couple from the United States said they had never heard of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher but, given her divisive tenure, they asked Reddit users to suggest alternative names

Wales Online · Dec 24, 2022

Mum divides opinion after falling in love with 'Thatcher' as baby name

The parent-to-be had been hoping to name her bundle of the joy Thatcher, but both the mum and her husband became concerned after realising it holds political connotations

Daily Mirror · Dec 24, 2022

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We had no idea we could get social housing, but it has changed our lives

Too many are missing out due to shortages and stigma, says journalist Nicholas Fearn

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2022

Ann Widdecombe says nurses' demands for 19% pay rise are 'cloud cuckooland'

She has also hit out at Mick Lynch and some current MPs including Rishi Sunak, Matt Hancock and Theresa May saying she 'is not the most inspiring person on Earth. When she talks people go to sleep'

Wales Online · Dec 18, 2022

Betty! A Sort of Musical review – fitfully funny take on the life of Betty Boothroyd

Co-writer Maxine Peake stars as an am-dram actor playing the former Commons speaker in Sarah Frankcom’s end-of-the-pier-style production

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2022

The Tories’ Santa tax has brought Christmas to its knees

What good is goodwill, say the Conservatives, if it can’t be monetised?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2022

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Scots nurse who became face of 1980s pay dispute with Thatcher throws support behind possible NHS strikes

Shirley Lawson has blasted the governments who haven't delivered on pay promises.

Daily Record · Dec 18, 2022

'They should be treated like human beings,' says British activist campaigning for tenants

Our Observer, Kwajo Tweneboa, lived in appalling conditions in a London council house for years, along with his dying father and two sisters. But he has turned this difficult experience into a powerful drive for change. Today, he travels up and down the UK visiting substandard homes and documenting the…

France 24 · Dec 15, 2022

Renaissance Man Liam Payne Revealed He Spent 50 Goddamn Hours On A Payne-Ting Of… The Queen

Liam Payne recently revealed he spent 50 hours on an oil painting of Queen Elizabeth II, a follow up to his painting of Prince Philip.

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 13, 2022

The right says strikes are abusive and wicked. I say they have helped build our society

Don’t believe Rishi Sunak or other Tory union-busters, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2022

The Guardian view on Sunak’s strikes: to be more inflexible than Thatcher is a flaw

Editorial: The prime minister should be like his political idol and award inflation-proof pay rises to end industrial strife by key workers

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev remembered by Pavel Palazhchenko

The former Soviet leader’s longtime translator remembers an optimist who wanted to achieve his goals by persuasion, not force, and understood that he was a man of history

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2022

Lord Young of Graffham obituary

Businessman who served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet in the 1980s and was regarded as one of her favourite ministers

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

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Daily Mirror · Dec 11, 2022

Boy George claims Matt Hancock snarled at him for Margaret Thatcher jibe

Boy George and Matt Hancock had some confrontations in the jungle and still seem to be feuding outside the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp after their exits

Daily Mirror · Dec 10, 2022

Pension rip-off leaves retired mineworkers unable to afford family funerals

Welsh ex-miner Emlyn Davies, 77, could not scrape together the £2,900 needed to bury his wife and lives with his daughter because he only receives £61 a week after 26 years down the pits

Daily Mirror · Dec 10, 2022

Lord Young, a 'favourite' former minister of Margaret Thatcher, dies aged 90

Lord Young of Graffham, a successful businessman who became a cabinet minister and was known as a favourite of then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, has died aged 90

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2022

Lord Young, former Conservative minister and businessman, dies aged 90

Minister exalted by Margaret Thatcher also advised David Cameron and ran businesses including Cable & Wireless

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Wales Online · Dec 9, 2022

Tory councillor breaches code of conduct over Union Flag bunting

Liam Bones was asked to remove images of Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill

Chronicle Live · Dec 8, 2022

Councillor breaches code of conduct in council office Union Flag bunting drama

Preston councillor Liam Bones was asked to remove the Union Flag bunting and images of Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill from the Conservative group room and later published an article on it

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2022

Suella Braverman is spoiling for a fight on human rights – one that undermines this whole government

The home secretary’s factionalism and refusal to toe the line are making Rishi Sunak look weaker by the day, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Chronicle Live · Dec 7, 2022

Newcastle United and the World Cup: Italia '90 - Three former Magpies shine for England

To the operatic soundtrack of Pavarotti and co, television coverage of the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy would continue to live long in the memory

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2022

If it’s unions against these infantile ministers, I know who will win

The UK government’s amateur grandstanding will end in a humiliating climbdown, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Conversation · Dec 2, 2022

Winter of discontent: how similar is today's situation?

The UK government is battening down the hatches for a wave of strikes in December and January. Railway workers, nurses, ambulance workers, civil servants and postal staff are all set to take industrial action in the coming weeks in protest at wages not keeping up with inflation, with teachers’ and…

ABC News · Nov 29, 2022

Australian Medical Association slams Industrial Relations Commission over nurses union threat

The head of the peak medical organisation representing doctors in WA describes a threat to deregister the Australian Nursing Federation as "Thatcher-like".

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