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The damage wreaked by Thatcher is incalculable. Here’s one of the worst examples 👇
December 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The damage wreaked by Thatcher is incalculable. Here’s one of the worst examples 👇
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Most probably don’t realise that before Thatcher 42% of people lived in council housing - now it’s only 6%. There is a housing crisis and over 300,000 are homeless as a result of her policies. The damage she did to this country is immense and irreversible yet she is viewed by so many as an icon.
I’ve never understood the adulation people have for Thatcher. She was a heartless monster who asset-stripped an entire country and squandered the money to buy votes. The idea that she was some sort of economic genius is farcical and the terrible state of the country today is her legacy.
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Most probably don’t realise that before Thatcher 42% of people lived in council housing - now it’s only 6%. There is a housing crisis and over 300,000 are homeless as a result of her policies. The damage she did to this country is immense and irreversible yet she is viewed by so many as an icon.
Thatcher.
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Revenues jumped 40% to nearly £2bn after debt-ridden utility hiked water bills sharply in April
Thames Water has reported a leap in half-year profits to £386m after bills rose by nearly a third, even as it warned it faced huge funding uncertainties that could result in a rapid collapse into government control.
Britain’s biggest water company on Wednesday said it had swung into profit for the six months to September, after losing £230m in the same period in 2024. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Thatcher.
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Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
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We’ve moved from ‘social security’ to ‘welfare’; from minimum entitlements to food banks; and now reducing child poverty is rebadged as a ‘benefit street’ budget. What have we become?
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We’ve moved from ‘social security’ to ‘welfare’; from minimum entitlements to food banks; and now reducing child poverty is rebadged as a ‘benefit street’ budget. What have we become?
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Tremendous tribute by John Carvel to my late Guardian colleague Malcom Dean
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Malcolm Dean obituary
Founder of the Guardian’s Society section who stood for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in the 1983 and 1987 general elections
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Tremendous tribute by John Carvel to my late Guardian colleague Malcom Dean
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Bad Friday.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld8z...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld8z...
I Can't Stand My Baby
YouTube video by The Rezillos - Topic
m.youtube.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Bad Friday.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld8z...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld8z...
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Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.
April 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.
Italy is what it feels like to be in love.
April 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Italy is what it feels like to be in love.
You know there is a god when the radio in a cafe in Puglia gives you Young Americans.
April 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
You know there is a god when the radio in a cafe in Puglia gives you Young Americans.
For ever daughter & every son
without their mum to ask them
"Why don't you go for a run?"
without their mum to ask them
"Why don't you go for a run?"
March 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
For ever daughter & every son
without their mum to ask them
"Why don't you go for a run?"
without their mum to ask them
"Why don't you go for a run?"
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This👇is my own MP, @marykfoymp.bsky.social. Hard to disagree…and kudos for using the term ‘social security’, not the loaded ‘welfare’.
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This👇is my own MP, @marykfoymp.bsky.social. Hard to disagree…and kudos for using the term ‘social security’, not the loaded ‘welfare’.
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Remembering the great Billy Mackenzie on his birthday. NME cover shot from April 1982 by Anton Corbijn
March 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Remembering the great Billy Mackenzie on his birthday. NME cover shot from April 1982 by Anton Corbijn
The Clash - I'm so Bored with the U.S.A. (Official Audio)
YouTube video by theclashVEVO
m.youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
When Friday night was Friday night.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ7V-LGib1M
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March 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
When Friday night was Friday night.
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t.co/Bg24h9Py6F
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Andrew Neil a lickspittle to any rich rightwing paymaster he can find, spewing his hatred for the poor. Despicable.
March 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Andrew Neil a lickspittle to any rich rightwing paymaster he can find, spewing his hatred for the poor. Despicable.
The UK's major political parties have all truly swallowed Morrissey's "the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy' line #r4today. Shame on all of you.
March 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The UK's major political parties have all truly swallowed Morrissey's "the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy' line #r4today. Shame on all of you.