Day: April 9, 2013

NY Times on Thatcher: “transformed Britain more thoroughly than any other prime minister of the past half-century”

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A leader who transformed Britain by pushing the nation in new directions. Margaret Thatcher, who died of a stroke on Monday at age 87, transformed Britain more thoroughly than any other prime minister of the past half-century. She was a pathbreaker from the moment she took office in 1979 as Britain’s first, and so far … Read more

WSJ op ed: “The World-Changing Margaret Thatcher – Not since Catherine the Great has there been a woman of such consequence.”

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Paul Johnson the British historian – Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around—decisively—the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries. "Thatcherism" was the most popular and successful way of … Read more