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Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher
Revolting robots
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 26 April 2017 Looks like robots are going to replace humans at work in the not … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Brazil, Economics, Finland, India, Japan, Literature, Netherlands, USA
Tagged Cleveland Ohio, Czechoslovakia, Ford Motor Company, Karel Čapek, Luddites, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, Namibia, Ned Ludd, R.U.R, robot, Thomas Paine, UK Coal Miners' Strike 1984-85, universal basic income, Walter Reuther
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Left = Right
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 7 November 2013 “For a long time now, at least thirty to forty years, the policy … Continue reading
Posted in Poland, UK
Tagged consumerism, individualism, Margaret Thatcher, social democracy, taxpayers, the working class, University of Leeds, Zygmunt Bauman
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Caught red-handed with smoking gun
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 26 March 2013 UK LABOUR PARTY LEADER CONDONES SLAVE LABOUR For a long time now the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, UK
Tagged Cain and Abel, Edward Miliband, Margaret Thatcher, slave labour, Tony Blair, triangulation, UK Labour Party, workfare
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Hanged for a sheep
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 18 December 2012 “I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Police, Politics, UK
Tagged 1984/85 miners' strike, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, Old Etonians, Ronald Reagan, Rotherham
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Exstinctus amabitur idem
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 2 October 2012 There is saturation and generally fulsome coverage in the UK Guardian today of … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics
Tagged Ed Milliband, Eric Hobsbawm, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair
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Selling off the family silver
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 10 March 2010 PRIVATE AFFLUENCE, PUBLIC SQUALOR “First of all the Georgian silver goes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged Canaletto, family silver, Harold Macmillan, J K Galbraith, Margaret Thatcher, privatisation
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Cosa Nostra
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Posted in Politics, UK
Tagged Cosa Nostra, individuals, Margaret Thatcher, society, the Mafia
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Where Engels Fears to Tread
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 17 February 2012 FROM OSCAR TO STALIN “You wrote for the New Statesman? What did you … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Politics
Tagged Brian Howard, Café Royal, Christ Church, Communist Party, Cyril Connolly, Eton, Margaret Thatcher
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