tagged w/ Margaret Thatcher
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Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show. Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
Does it matter.
You cannot play a record for 2 or 3 people.
Still waiting for the ashes.
I loved Margaret Thatcher.
Ralph who ?
The poll tax in the 80's.
Selecting the right plant.
Ironing.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of one.
Maple syrup.
Strapped for cash.
Brighton has gone.
The high's and lows of life.
How does someone poor pay their fine ?
A sack of old potatoes.
Dangerous animals.
A really nice man to work for - Dean.
Running around.
Anyone around the age of 45 ?
Owning homes all over the world.
Disappointed with myself.
Swearing on the radio.
Getting out of bed.
Asking the dj for a request
The easiest job of the week.
Is it the flannelette sheets ?
Into the letterbox.
Nothing to look forward to.
Try to remember.
Back into double figures.
I''M VERY SORRY SOME OF THE EMAILS ARE TAKING A LONF TIME TO APPEAR ON THE SHOW.
How old are your children.
Half half.
The sharp end of my tongue.
Which way should we go ?
A photo gallery ?
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
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This quote from Margaret Thatcher could just as easily have been uttered by Sarah Palin.
Imagine Hillary's face and demeanor as she watched Sarah Palin come onto the world stage and take it by storm, Imagine, if you will, the tantrum she must be throwing as she sees this bright young woman take the place that she believed was hers, and hers alone.
Or, as Barbara Amiel - a columnist for Macleans', the Canadian weekly newsmagazine, and a former senior political columnist for the Sunday Times of London - writes:
"Imagine watching Sarah Palin, the gun-toting, lifelong member of the NRA, the PTA mom with teased hair and hips half the size of Hillary's, who went ... omigod ... to the University of Idaho and studied journalism. Mrs. Palin with her five kids and one of them still virtually suckling age, going wham through that cement ceiling put there exclusively for good-looking right-wing/populist conservative females by not-so-good-looking left-wing ones (Gloria Steinem excepting). There, pending some terrible goof or revelation, stood the woman most likely to get into the Oval Office as its official occupant rather than as an intern.
Imagine Hillary's fury."
You gotta love it...
This quote from Margaret Thatcher could just as easily have been uttered by Sarah... more
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I remember Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbaciov, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Warhol, William Hurt, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Kathleen Turner, Kelly Mc Gillis, Kelly Le Brock, River Phoenix, John Belushi, Kevin Bacon, Bill Cosby, Arsenio Hall, Barbra Streisand, Christopher Cross, Prince, Milli e Vanilli, Tracy Chapman, Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis, Julius Erving, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, John Mc Enroe, Biorn Borg, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Steffy Graf, Brooke Shields, Irene Cara, Jennifer Beals, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Bo Derek, Nelson Mandela…. And You ?I remember Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbaciov, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Warhol, William... more
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LONDON (Reuters) – Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher -- once known as one of the world's most formidable political minds -- has been suffering from dementia for the past seven years, according to her daughter, Carol.
Carol Thatcher tells in her memoirs of how her 82-year-old mother, nicknamed the "Iron Lady" for her tough reputation, often struggles to remember things and repeats questions.
In a memoir serialized in the Mail on Sunday newspaper, her daughter paints a picture of a very different woman from the political heavyweight who strutted the world stage in the 1980s.
"The woman who had dominated discussions for so long could no longer lead debates or keep up with the thread of a drinks-party conversation," she wrote.
"On bad days, she could hardly remember the beginning of a sentence by the time she got to the end."
Thatcher rarely appears in public these days after being advised by doctors in 2002 that she should avoid public speaking following a series of minor strokes.
People suffering with dementia have a significant loss of the mental skills that affect daily life. It is caused by various factors such as strokes, tumors, head injuries and Alzheimer's disease and affects some 700,000 people in Britain, around two-thirds of them women.
Carol Thatcher said the first sign of dementia appeared when her mother was about 75, when she confused the Falklands and Bosnian conflicts in a conversation over lunch.
"I nearly fell off my chair," Carol Thatcher wrote, according to excerpts of the book which will be published next month. "Watching her struggle with her words and her memory, I couldn't believe it. She was in her 75th year but I had always thought of her as ageless, timeless and 100 per cent cast-iron damage-proof."
Thatcher took power in Britain in a general election on May 3, 1979, becoming the nation's first and only female prime minister. She left the famous Number 10 Downing Street office after a record-breaking 11 years in power.
At the peak of her powers in the early 1980s, Thatcher's sheer strength of personality made her one of the West's best known figures, famous for "handbagging" her opponents into backing her, or at least backing down.
Carol Thatcher wrote that one of the most difficult episodes in recent years had been the death of her father Denis Thatcher in 2003, which her mother often forgot had happened.
"Losing Dad ... was truly awful for Mum, not least because her dementia meant she kept forgetting he was dead," she wrote.
"I had to keep giving her the bad news over and over again."
LONDON (Reuters) – Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher -- once known... more
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Margaret Thatcher is to be given the ultimate accolade of a State funeral when she reaches the end of her days – the first British Prime Minister since Winston Churchill to be afforded such an honour.
But the possibility of a formal procession could be jeopardised by fears that there are insufficient troops available to line the route because the Armed Forces are so overstretched in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Although Lady Thatcher is currently in good health – she was with the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday – The Mail on Sunday has learned that plans
are under way for her funeral, when the time eventually comes, to take place at
St Paul’s Cathedral.Margaret Thatcher is to be given the ultimate accolade of a State funeral when she... more
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82-year-old Lady Thatcher was taken to a London hospital last night for "precautionary tests". She was driven from her Belgravia home and admitted to St Thomas's Hospital near Waterloo for the medical checks, a Conservative party spokeswoman said.
In 2005 the former Tory party leader suffered a series of minor strokes which affected her short-term memory. She was advised by doctors to withdraw from public commitments and is said to require extensive home care.82-year-old Lady Thatcher was taken to a London hospital last night for... more
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"All About Eve: The Photography of Eve Arnold." Eve Arnold is a photographer known for her sympathetic approach towards her subjects, who have included Marilyn Monroe, Malcolm X, Joan Crawford and Margaret Thatcher. She is able to capture a closeness that is not easy for most others to capture.
Photographs and a video are included."All About Eve: The Photography of Eve Arnold." Eve Arnold is a... more
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