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‘Sliding door’: Man who questioned Thatcher as boy says it changed his life’s path
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‘Sliding door’: Man who questioned Thatcher as boy says it changed his ...
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Police probe after Thatcher's old HQ hit by suspected arson attack : The building currently serves as the constituency office of Tory MP Mike Freer
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Police probe after Thatcher's old HQ hit by suspected arson attack
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We’re still paying for Thatcher’s cruelty – what was Starmer thinking?: Thatcherism is the very reason Starmer will inherit a broken economy
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We’re still paying for Thatcher’s cruelty – what was Starmer thinking?
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Lazy and fraudulent: we saw the true Johnson at the Covid inquiry – and why his like must never have power again
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Lazy and fraudulent: we saw the true Johnson at the Covid inquiry – and ...
Quick Glance: Legacy of Boris Johnson: Impact of Covid Inquiry
  • After this week’s Covid inquiry, all doubts about Boris Johnson’s political career are put to rest.

  • Hugo Keith KC, counsel to the Covid inquiry, meticulously revealed the former British prime minister's numerous failures.

  • During the pandemic, Johnson's negligence, laziness, and systematic deceit, coupled with his repeated boasting of fictitious achievements, are exposed.

  • It is inevitable that Johnson will face being shunned after the Covid inquiry.
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Eyes shut and go for it - Sleeping is a must! Researchers reveal the secrets of sleep. Can we use their insights? trib.al/IDRmuTC
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Art is for everyone, says Turner Prize’s first trans winner: The artist is known for work with unconventional materials such as welded barriers, hazard tape ...
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Art is for everyone, says Turner Prize’s first trans winner
Quick Glance: Jesse Darling Wins 2023 Turner Prize
  • Jesse Darling, known for sculptures made from everyday items reflecting political instability, wins 2023 Turner Prize.

  • The Turner Prize, a prestigious award for British-born or working artists, honors outstanding exhibitions from the previous year.

  • Judges praised Walker's work, created on official forms, as 'monumental portraits telling equally monumental stories'.

  • The 2023 Turner Prize jury included Farquharson, Martin Clark, Cédric Fauq, Melanie Keen, and Helen Nisbet.
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This is Karen Schmit. She posted her ironing board for sale on Facebook, and commenters pointed out that she had Margaret Thatcher's face burnt in to the cover ... Show more
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Woman reckons she's seen the Iron Lady in her ironing board: Karen Schmit, 63, or Norwich, said she hadn't noticed the resemblance to the 'Iron ...
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Woman reckons she's seen the Iron Lady in her ironing board
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"Like your leader, do you admire Margaret Thatcher?" asks @KayBurley Shadow home secretary @YvetteCooperMP replies "Margaret Thatcher did huge ... Show more
Quick Glance: New Rwanda Bill Grants Ministers Power to Disregard Human Rights Laws
  • Government claims bill clarifies Rwanda as safe for asylum seekers, to be introduced in Parliament on Thursday.

  • UK's highest court ruled last month that plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda were unlawful.

  • Policy, first announced by former PM Boris Johnson in April 2022, aims to deter small boat crossings of the English Channel.

  • Bill allows ministers to disregard emergency orders from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to temporarily halt flights to Rwanda during ongoing individual case considerations.
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How Historically Accurate Is The Crown?: How much of Netflix's 'The Crown' is based on real life? Which bits are true? Grazia sorts the fact from ...
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How Historically Accurate Is The Crown?
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✍️Jack Kessler: The picture quality on YouTube marks a noted decline around 1983, while the rumours are true — the Seventies really were a red-letter decade ... Show more
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'The Crown' Season 6, Part 2 review: A slow, sullen march to the end: Six seasons later, it's done.
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'The Crown' Season 6, Part 2 review: A slow, sullen march to the end
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Janan Ganesh: Emmanuel Macron is my politician of the year: Other western leaders need some of the French president’s bullheadedness
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Janan Ganesh: Emmanuel Macron is my politician of the year
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Henry Kissinger: Former US secretary of state and foreign policy giant dies aged 100
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Henry Kissinger: Former US secretary of state and foreign policy giant ...
Quick Glance: The Legacy of Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy
  • Understanding the subtle interplay between interests, values, and the use of force remains relevant

  • Many perceive him as the foremost advocate of an amoral realism that stains America

  • However, Mr. Kissinger was distinguished not only by his Realpolitik, but also by the idealism that permeated his diplomatic practice

  • Today, this means preserving peace between China and America
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Keir Starmer insists he’s no Thatcher ‘fan boy’ and says she did terrible things: ‘She did terrible things – particularly here in Scotland’, Labour leader tells ...
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Keir Starmer insists he’s no Thatcher ‘fan boy’ and says she did terrible ...
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The Crown should have ended years ago. There, I said it: I finished watching the final season of ‘The Crown’ and wondered: when was the last time it had released ...
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The Crown should have ended years ago. There, I said it
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Billy Bragg looks back: ‘I can’t compete with Taylor Swift. But I can talk to an audience’
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Billy Bragg looks back: ‘I can’t compete with Taylor Swift ...
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Banksy confirms his real name in unearthed BBC interview: He also talked about it being people's rights to go out and paint their cities
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Banksy confirms his real name in unearthed BBC interview
Quick Glance: Revealed: Banksy's Identity Unearthed in 2003 Interview
  • A long-lost 2003 interview with Banksy has been recently discovered.

  • In a newly unearthed interview from 2003, the celebrated graffiti artist Banksy seems to have revealed his real name.

  • The previously unreleased interview is now being shared as part of a special episode for BBC Radio 4’s The Banksy Story.

  • Anonymity and mystery are crucial parts of the Banksy brand, and uncovering the artist's identity would strip away their principal form of artistic expression.
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Mick Clifford: A year of remarkable writing: Mick Clifford: A year of remarkable writing: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic
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Mick Clifford: A year of remarkable writing
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Wales's health minister deletes 'appalling' post about Margaret Thatcher amid Rishi Sunak's reshuffle
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Wales's health minister deletes 'appalling' post about ...
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NEW: Scottish Labour are remaining silent after Keir Starmer praised Margaret Thatcher. Amid widespread backlash, the party's MSPs have been talking about the ... Show more
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AI-Generated Images: Google Can’t Catch All the Midjourney Images. Can You?: Its role as the world’s indexer of information is on shaky ground as fake images ...
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AI-Generated Images: Google Can’t Catch All the Midjourney Images ...
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How Historically Accurate Is The Crown?: How much of Netflix's 'The Crown' is based on real life? Which bits are true? Grazia sorts the fact from ...
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How Historically Accurate Is The Crown?
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The Miners’ Fight in Their Own Words: Based on the accounts of nearly 150 people directly involved in the 1984-85 miners' strike, Robert Gildea's new book is a ...
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The Miners’ Fight in Their Own Words
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The truth about Margaret Thatcher's disastrous legacy: On May 4, 1979, Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the UK.
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The truth about Margaret Thatcher's disastrous legacy
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Terrible winter saw human waste fill the streets as the dead went unburied: 45 years since the infamous period in history that was dubbed the 'Winter of ...
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Terrible winter saw human waste fill the streets as the dead went unburied
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Question Time: Humza Yousaf hits back as Labour MP defends Thatcher praise: SCOTLAND’S First Minister has hit back at a Labour MP who defended Keir Starmer’s ...
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Question Time: Humza Yousaf hits back as Labour MP defends Thatcher praise
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How North Sea Oil Shaped Britain’s Economy: When Thatcher's government inherited the emerging riches of North Sea oil, it pioneered 'carbon neoliberalism' — a ...
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How North Sea Oil Shaped Britain’s Economy
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‘The Crown’ Should Have Ended Years Ago. There, I Said It.: When I finished watching the final season of the royal epic ‘The Crown’, I closed my laptop and ...
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‘The Crown’ Should Have Ended Years Ago. There, I Said It.
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How Bus Privatisation Screwed Post-Industrial Britain: Margaret Thatcher’s deregulation of bus services compounded the damage of deindustrialisation by severing ...
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How Bus Privatisation Screwed Post-Industrial Britain
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The advertising giant that helped to put Margaret Thatcher in power has attacked the “cruelty” of the Conservatives
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Welsh Government minister sorry for Margaret Thatcher 'joke' : She was commenting on the return of another former Prime Minister - David Cameron - to Rishi ...
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Welsh Government minister sorry for Margaret Thatcher 'joke'
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Has privatisation failed Scotland's bus service? In 1985, Margaret Thatcher deregulated buses. In the decades since, the number of local bus journeys taken ... Show more
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Anas Sarwar keeps taking a pop at The National - why?: LAST Tuesday morning – a particularly chilly one – I made my way over to Pollockshaws Burgh Hall to speak ...
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Anas Sarwar keeps taking a pop at The National - why?
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LISTEN: Michael Vaughan can't stop giggling at Mark Waugh's late-night Margaret Thatcher gaffe
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LISTEN: Michael Vaughan can't stop giggling at Mark Waugh's ...
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Viral optical illusion stumps confused viewers: 'That hurt my eyes': Dog pics might seem rather self-explanatory — however, internet users have been howling over ...
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Viral optical illusion stumps confused viewers: 'That hurt my eyes'
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Does Keir Starmer stack up?: Few Labour politicians have anything nice to say about Margaret Thatcher, so when Keir Starmer wrote an op-ed over the weekend ...
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Does Keir Starmer stack up?
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Why so little support for Alba motion condemning Starmer’s comments?: THERE are times when I despair of our SNP MSPs’ behaviour at Holyrood. If there is a motion ...
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Why so little support for Alba motion condemning Starmer’s comments?
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Why the world loves Margaret Thatcher: Margaret Thatcher remains a figure of hate for her critics on the left, but many world leaders idolise Britain's former ...
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Why the world loves Margaret Thatcher
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Meryl Streep has been separated from her husband Don Gummer for six years, her publicist has confirmed "While they will always care for each other ... Show more
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Margaret Thatcher can teach Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak how to deal with a crisis in Israel
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Margaret Thatcher can teach Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak how to deal with ...
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“Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s most feted post-war prime minister, was fiercely pro-Jewish and a powerful enemy of antisemitism ... Show more
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Train line that never was & horrified Thatcher as 'Tories don't live in Hackney': Margaret Thatcher baulked at the proposal by civil servants as she questioned ...
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Train line that never was & horrified Thatcher as 'Tories don't live in ...
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Cameron Mackintosh dedicates theatre performance to Haydn Gwynne: The actress, who has died aged 66, had to withdraw from the show last month due to ‘personal ...
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Cameron Mackintosh dedicates theatre performance to Haydn Gwynne
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Reeves is the most impressive figure on the front bench in terms of natural authority ✍️ Anne McElvoy www.standard.co.uk/comment/rachel-reeves-margaret-thatcher-labour-party-conference-b1112322.html
Quick Glance: Rachel Reeves Makes Bold Political Move After Tory Setbacks
  • Labour is the only party trusted on the economy.

  • Labour dares to seize political territory and claim economic competence.

  • Rachel Reeves aims to gain trust as the steward of the nation's finances.

  • Labour remains committed to its plan for economic growth despite Tory attacks.
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Britain’s Labour Party embraces supply-side social democracy: Sir Keir Starmer’s agenda for government starts with reforms to planning
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Britain’s Labour Party embraces supply-side social democracy
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The myth of “Thatcherite” tax cuts: As the fight for the future of the Tory party continues, the inevitable claims by MPs to be the one true Thatcherite have ...
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The myth of “Thatcherite” tax cuts
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I'm a Celebrity: Full list of winners ahead of 2023 series: See the full list of previous I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here UK winners ahead of the new 2023 ...
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I'm a Celebrity: Full list of winners ahead of 2023 series
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What Leicestershire looked like back in 1979: We've gone back to the start of the Thatcher years
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What Leicestershire looked like back in 1979
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Argentina’s far-right Milei angers Falklands veterans with Thatcher praise: Presidential candidate calls former UK prime minister one of ‘the great leaders in ...
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Argentina’s far-right Milei angers Falklands veterans with Thatcher praise
Quick Glance: Argentine Presidential Candidates Clash Before Crucial Election
  • Libertarian Javier Milei vows to abolish central bank, attacks Peronist minister Sergio Massa

  • Massa pledges national unity government, poverty and inflation reduction

  • Milei emphasizes economic growth, denies pension cuts and job layoffs

  • Massa stresses political experience, desire to build consensus and respect diverse views
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German-British relations: The second soul: Nobody talks about "Krauts," "Huns" and a "Blitzkrieg" anymore: the British perception of what is German has changed ...
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German-British relations: The second soul
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There were a ton of phrases and metaphors redolent of Margaret Thatcher in Rachel Reeves' party conference speech, writes Political Editor Robert Peston. Show more
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From Sir Keir Starmer's glitter to Margaret Thatcher's vow: 11 conference moments that made headlines
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From Sir Keir Starmer's glitter to Margaret Thatcher's vow: 11 ...
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Fellow Travelers on Paramount+: this gay love story left me genuinely grateful to have gone on this journey
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Fellow Travelers on Paramount+: this gay love story left me genuinely ...
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Rishi Sunak Pitches Tories as Party of Change After 13 Years in Power: Rishi Sunak didn’t just rip up the UK’s flagship rail project on Wednesday ...
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Rishi Sunak Pitches Tories as Party of Change After 13 Years in Power
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Puppets from the programme, including of Margaret Thatcher, Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Queen Mother, are among the items to go on display in a free ... Show more
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The Falklands war and the legacy of British imperialism: The RSC play 'Falkland Sound' tells the islanders' story as they found themselves at the ...
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The Falklands war and the legacy of British imperialism
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Rishi Sunak faces criticism for comments about transgender people: RISHI Sunak is facing criticism for his comments about transgender people made during his ...
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Rishi Sunak faces criticism for comments about transgender people
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Time to climb out of Margaret Thatcher’s handbag and into the light: PROFESSOR Richard Murphy suggested we need to find “a better song to sing” ...
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Time to climb out of Margaret Thatcher’s handbag and into the light
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New mural on Liverpool street pays tribute to people who took a stand during the city's toughest days in 1980s ✊ Produced by John Culshaw ... Show more
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Capitalism and culture wars won’t save Tories or Republicans: The future of conservatism looks uncannily like a return to its recent past. On both sides of the ...
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Capitalism and culture wars won’t save Tories or Republicans
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Colchester and Margaret Thatcher's curious connection: Margaret Thatcher lived for two years in Colchester, living with her landlady, Enid Macaulay ...
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Colchester and Margaret Thatcher's curious connection
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Could Nigel Farage unlock victory for Keir Starmer?: Where is Keir Starmer’s offer to Nigel Farage who is, after all, the closest thing we have to a modern-day ...
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Could Nigel Farage unlock victory for Keir Starmer?
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Margaret Thatcher mugs on sale without backstamps as Tories shun Stoke-on-Trent: But there are 'Made in Stoke-on-Trent' toby jugs from Bairstow Manor ...
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Margaret Thatcher mugs on sale without backstamps as Tories shun ...
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Lee Anderson reminisces about Thatcher bashing: Lee Anderson isn’t one to shy away from controversy and his speech on Monday evening at a fringe event at Tory ...
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Lee Anderson reminisces about Thatcher bashing
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María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan Margaret Thatcher : The politician — who currently leads the opposition primary polls in Venezuela — defends privatization ...
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María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan Margaret Thatcher
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To turn or not to turn?: Is the UK on the edge of a historic turning point? Some readers will laugh or perhaps fume that the question is posed in relation to an ...
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To turn or not to turn?
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Rishi Sunak: Thatcher would have backed me on net zero — follow live: Key momentsPM defends delaying green policiesEd Miliband accuses Sunak of “dither and ...
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Rishi Sunak: Thatcher would have backed me on net zero — follow live
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From Margaret Thatcher's vow to Theresa May's coughing fit: 10 conference moments that made headlines
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From Margaret Thatcher's vow to Theresa May's coughing fit: 10 ...
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Red Ken had stark highs and lows but this Alzheimers diagnosis is sad: Not many politicians got the better of Sir Tony Blair but Ken Livingstone has a claim ...
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Red Ken had stark highs and lows but this Alzheimers diagnosis is sad