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Three months after Margaret Thatcher was elected as prime minister for her third term (June 1987) she gave an interview toWoman’s Ownmagazine in which she condemned those “children and people” who expected the government, as the representative of “society,” to sort their problems out. The...
“There is no such thing as society” Prime minister Margaret Thatcher, talking to Women’s Own magazine, October 31 1987 “I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it...
“There is no such thing as society” is a peculiar way of saying that, for sure, but then great rhetoric is often counterintuitive. Plato is not a name one associates with Thatcher, to put it mildly, but he would have agreed with her on that point: there is no such thing as ...
Ipsos tested two versions of Margaret Thatcher's famous "no such thing as society" interview, each with representative samples of the population - one with just that simple statement, and one with a much longer excerpt from the interview. And there is a
Thatcherism took the politics out of politics and created vast differences between rich and poor, but no expectation that the existence of such gross inequalities was a problem that society or government could solve - because as Mrs Thatcher said, 'There is no such thing as society ...people ...
'Thatcher Seemed Intent on Proving Her Famous Adage That There Was No Such Thing as Society by Obliterating Some of the Strongest and Mutually Supportive Communities in the Industrial West' She Inherited Welsh Blood from Her Father, but as PM Saw Wales as Weak and Needy, Says Writer Mario ...
In 1985, marking the 250th anniversary of Downing Street as the official seat of government, Margaret Thatcher proclaimed that Number 10 is "above all, a home—and it is a house of history" (cited in...doi:10.1057/9780230283169_6Kevin A. Morrison...
In effect, students who had been previously seen as grown men and women were debating right and wrong in aspects of government - and, by implication, their rulers. As a result, Margaret Thatcher decreed that teachers could only be registered if their degrees were in national curriculum ...
— Margaret Thatcher 10 Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. — Doug Stanhope 6 When every one ...