Showing posts with label Margaret Thatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margaret Thatcher. Show all posts
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Why the British remain our most important allies

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“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world … Taking care always to keep ourselves b...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Margaret Thatcher and the free-market revival in Britain

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“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” – Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher was the first wo...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War: Latin America

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If the Cold War were a chess game, Latin Americans were often the pawns … Long before the  Cold War  began, American president James Mo...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Cold War crises: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and “Able Archer 83”

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“Is this a game, or is it real?” – Quote from “WarGames” (1983) , a fictional movie about a close call with nuclear war, which came out ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

A review of Andrew Marr’s “Modern Britain” series (1901-2007)

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"In this Act the expression 'Dominion'  means any of the following Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commo...
Friday, June 12, 2015

A review of PBS's movie "George H. W. Bush"

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"My opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And the Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they...
Friday, February 6, 2015

A review of PBS's "Ronald Reagan" movie

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"One of my favorite quotations about age comes from Thomas Jefferson. He said that we should never judge a president by his age, only...
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