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Montevideo, May 18th 2024 - 09:20 UTC

Tag: United Kingdom

  • Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 01:47 UTC

    Falkland Island''s tells MPs ‘we’re no quaint toy town’ on suggestion of changing Stanley’s name

    UK MP Tobias Ellwood, one of the sponsors behind the proposal to re-name Stanley, ‘Port Margaret Thatcher’

    A suggestion by some British senior Members of Parliament advocating a change of name for the Falkland Islands capital, Stanley to Port Margaret Thatcher in honour of the late Baroness had a strong reply from the local weekly, Penguin News.

  • Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 01:34 UTC

    Falklands’ debates contribution to Baroness Thatcher’s funeral costs

    Half mast flags in Stanley

    The UK public opinion controversy over the cost of Baroness Thatcher’s funeral has reached the Falkland Islands where a member of the public proposed a ‘six figure’ contribution towards the event from the local government.

  • Saturday, April 20th 2013 - 08:56 UTC

    Fitch trims UK top credit rating on weaker economy and fiscal outlook

    Labour Balls: ‘another humiliating blow for the Prime Minister and the Chancellor’

    Britain's credit standing took a further blow when Fitch Ratings became the second major international agency to strip the country of its top-notch credit rating. The move is an embarrassment for the Conservative-led government which promised to protect the country's rating when it took power in 2010, and will heighten the debate about whether austerity is still the right approach.

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 02:06 UTC

    Despite invitation Argentine ambassador will not attend Lady Thatcher’s funeral

    The Foreign Office excluded Cristina Fernandez from the guests’ list but included Ambassador Alicia Castro

    Argentine ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro has declined the official invitation to attend Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, Downing Street reported. Lady Thatcher was Britain’s PM when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and she sent a task force to successfully recover them in June 1982 after a 74-day armed conflict.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 23:12 UTC

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

    The first politician to grasp the decline of the old working class as an electoral asset

    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.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 18:18 UTC

    Controversy over the cost of the funeral; William Hague to the rescue

    Hague argued that Lady Thatcher negotiated savings for the UK from the EU equivalent to £75bn, “that puts money in perspective”

    The cost of Lady Thatcher’s funeral next Wednesday will be revealed afterwards, but the Daily Mirror has estimated it could be as high as £10m. The taxpayer is expected to foot most of the bill, with the Thatcher family agreeing to make an unspecified contribution.
    Foreign Secretary Hague said Britain could “afford” to cover some of the costs.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 15:26 UTC

    Crucially different from Hong Kong

    By Steve Tsang (*) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher fought a war with Argentina to defend the Falklands, but she negotiated with China over the future of Hong Kong. Should the apparent success of British diplomacy in securing an acceptable future of Hong Kong be a shining example for a similar solution for the Falklands?

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 15:17 UTC

    Gibraltar represents a road map

    By Jose C. Moya (*) - The recent referendum’s near unanimous support for British rule seems to leave little space for negotiations. The passing of Thatcher -- who was seen as a liberator by most Islanders -- will, if anything, harden their position by reviving memories of the war. And the position of the Argentine population is equally hard, if the recent revival and political use of the issue by the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is any indication.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:31 UTC

    Confidence behind the Falklands

    (*) Klaus Dodds is a professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and the editor of The Geographical Journal.

    By Klaus Dodds (*) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s death does not represent an opportunity to resolve the long-standing sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands, or Islas Malvinas. If anything it is a reminder of how entrenched her legacy is to this particular aspect of British foreign and security policy.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 07:04 UTC

    Pinochet followers call Lady Thatcher an “extraordinary world stateswoman”

    ”Lady Thatcher defended the jurisdictional sovereignty of Chile in very difficult moments in recent history”

    Followers of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinocher published two obituaries in the country’s leading newspaper expressing their condolences on the death of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom they describe as “an extraordinary stateswoman” and friend of Chile “in very difficult moments in recent history”