Posted on 10/13/2025 4:11:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan
One hundred years ago - October 13th 1925 - Margaret Hilda Roberts was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, an English market town in the East Midlands. She was raised in the flat above her father's grocery shop. That's to say, she came from the same class as the ladies out on the streets of Epping and elsewhere protesting the rape of their children and their demographic dispossession in one of the oldest nation-states on earth, and despised by Starmer et al for not getting with the death-by-diversity programme.
Young Margaret grew up to become a research chemist, a barrister, and finally a politician called Mrs Thatcher - always "Mrs Thatcher": I cannot claim to have given her any other specific advice but I did suggest she should not accept her alleged upgrade to "Baroness Thatcher", as if one of the rare consequential members of the political class was of no greater rank than such wretched figures as Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan. The only guy who got any mileage out of it was CNN's Larry King, who took to introducing her as "Margaret The Lady Thatcher", like Sammy The Bull Gravano. She achieved greatness as a missus, and should have remained so, like Mr Gladstone rather than Mr Gravano.
Mrs Thatcher shaped events as opposed just to stringing along behind them. There have been nine prime ministers since, but, like a guest on my Saturday music show, I can't name them, can you? Trimmers and opportunists, charlatans and at least one traitor (Johnson).....
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Thank you. A very good read from a bygone era.
I would have loved to see Thatcher handle the rise of the EU, but I suppose they had to wait for her to leave.
Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in 1964 for using X-ray crystallography to demonstrate the 3D structure of penicillin, insulin, vitamin B12, and sterols. Thatcher was tutored by Hodgkin at Somerville College.
Very interesting background for the PM to come from such a distinguished background.
Bkmk
Like Reagan, whose era was repealed by Clinton, we see Thatcher’s legacy be erased.
Steyn! You are as fine as Thatcher!
Good Job Steyn! Thank you TOO for your life’s service to Freedom.
Two Brit warriors.
We don’t want kings, but we do need and want Lions!
As our grandchildren may well be saying about the USA and Trump, unless our rejuvenation is a JudeoChristian revival.“A generation on, the Thatcher era seems more and more like a magnificent but temporary interlude in a great nation's bizarre, remorseless self-dissolution. She was right and they were wrong, and because of that they will never forgive her.”
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