Tag: Margaret Thatcher

• Friday, April 12th 2013 - 23:12 UTC

  Thatcherism spread far and wide but with a hollowed middle class, for how long?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Margaret Thatcher was the woman who began the shift to the right that has affected almost all the countries of the West in the past three decades. But it is an open question whether even the crash of 2008 and the ensuing prolonged recession have finally ended the long reign of her ideas in Western politics.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 07:55 UTC

  Lady Thatcher’s funeral with military honours will take place on April 17

  

  Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's ceremonial funeral with military honours will take place in London on Wednesday, April 17, David Cameron's office said. The service will be held in St Paul's Cathedral, Downing Street announced.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 07:50 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers criticize Lady Thatcher over the ‘Belgrano’ and for promoting economic ‘neo-liberalism’

  

  The Argentine government remains silent on the death last Monday of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but several lawmakers, former officials and Malvinas veterans organizations did have something say and not only linked to the Falklands war and the sinking of the Argentine cruiser ‘Belgrano’ in May 1982.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2013 - 07:12 UTC

  Francis underlined Baroness Thatcher’s commitment to promoting freedom among the family of nations

  

  Pope Francis was saddened to learn of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and appreciative of the Christian values that underpinned her commitment to service and promotion of freedom.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 19:55 UTC

  Falklands war, a turning point for Margaret Thatcher’s image and political fortunes

  

  When the head of Argentina's military junta General Leopold Galtieri deployed military forces in the Falkland Islands, Britain assembled a task force to sail to the South Atlantic, to the astonishment of people in Britain, and the rest of the world.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 19:39 UTC

  Chilean president describes Thatcher as a ‘brave woman’ and ‘a great loss for the world’

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said that the death of Margaret Thatcher “is a great loss for the world”, while relatives and followers of Augusto Pinochet recalled how close the two leaders were and the support extended to the military regime.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 18:50 UTC

  Margaret ‘changed Britain forever’ and gave real inspiration to those living without political freedom

  

  Margaret Thatcher changed Britain forever but also gave hope and real inspiration to people behind the Iron Curtain and all those living without political freedom, said Foreign Secretary William Hague on the death of Baroness Thatcher.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 17:59 UTC

  UK first female prime minister and uncompromisingly conservative Iron Lady

  

  Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, liberator of the Falklands and uncompromisingly conservative “Iron Lady” of the 1980s died on Monday following a stroke at the age of 87.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 14:42 UTC

  Iron Lady will receive ceremonial funeral with military honours at St Paul’s Cathedral

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron’s office announced that Lady Thatcher who died on Monday will receive a Ceremonial funeral with military honours at St Paul’s Cathedral. No date has been given and further details will be released over the next few days. However on her family’s wishes it will not be a full state funeral.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 14:14 UTC

  Falklands will ‘forever remember’ Baroness Thatcher for having liberated the Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands government expressed great sadness at the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher on Monday. The brief message from Gilbert House was signed by MLA Mike Summers on behalf of the Legislative Assembly of the Falklands.