Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher

Its the environment, stupid…

The recent revival of Marx on the Continent is causing a lot of chatter. Das Kapital is now selling like the latest batch of hot cakes, proving that even commies prefer to own the book. Ironic because they could watch David Harvey’s lecture series on Das Kapital online for free.
By Daniel Taghioff.

This development has [...]

Yes, the middle classes are revolting, but I don't predict a riot

Riot shields ready to dodge the flying quiches. Set tasers to stun those unemployed analysts. Truncheon the bourgeois materialists. They no longer matter. We’ve bled them dry. By John J Kelly.
Recently, The Guardian reported police warnings of a ’summer of hate.’ Sources of Intelligence (in short supply in the police) ‘indicate’ that middle class anger [...]

Do you think I would leave you dying?

YES . . . . if you were Bobby Sands or the seven other 1981 IRA hunger strikers. This 1979 BBC clip aimed to show that the Iron Lady was an old softy at heart. Mrs Thatcher on Two Little Boys achieves the opposite effect. Not quite as harrowing as Hunger, the first feature from [...]