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67 Feb 20 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Scott-Smith (Giles) | US visit: Giles Scott-Smith article on MT's 1967 US tour (20 Feb-31 Mar) |
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74 Jun 24 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph says choice is to go down with socialism or prosper in a rational economy” (KJ speech at Upminster) |
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74 Aug 9 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Another call from Sir Keith to free industry” (KJ speech at Leith) |
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74 Sep 6 Fr | Press | ★★★★ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph blames full employment policies for inflation” (Peter Jay on KJ speech at Preston - “Inflation is Caused by Governments”) |
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74 Sep 6 Fr | Press | ★★★★ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “The Sharp Shock of Truth” (leading article on KJ speech at Preston) |
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74 Oct 16 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Tories must look before they leap into line behind a new leader" (Bernard Levin) [Conservative leadership candidates] |
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74 Oct 21 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph denies bid for Tory leadership as critics mount attack ” (KJ speech at Edgbaston) |
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74 Oct 21 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “The Public Morality” (leading article on KJ speech at Edgbaston) |
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75 Apr 9 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Thatcher memoirs | Cold War: Early meeting with Ronald Reagan [memoirs extract] |
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77 May 9 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The liberal teacher who turned his back on old age to lead world" (Seldon profile of Hayek) ["a liberal of the British classical tradition"] |
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77 Jul 21 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union immunity under the law" (Hayek letter) [revoke privileges granted by Trade Disputes Act, 1906] |
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77 Aug 2 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trade unions, being politically sacrosanct, have been allowed to destroy the British economy"] |
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77 Aug 20 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trouble is that British trade unions refuse to accept the law which applies to everybody else"] |
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77 Sep 14 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Tory leader denies split in party over closed shop" [Joseph-Prior spat over Grunwick] |
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78 Jul 11 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary ( The Times ) | EMS: “Treasury points out faults in ‘hurried’ currency proposals” (“sceptical to the point of contempt”) |
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79 May 4 Fr | Press | ★★★★ | Commentary (Ronnie Millar memoirs) | General Election: “A View From The Wings” (how MT was persuaded to use St Francis’s prayer on the steps of Downing Street) |
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80 Feb 12 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The balance between individual and state" (Gilmour's Cambridge Lecture) [Hayek's annotated copy] |
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80 Feb 22 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Eric Heffer speech ("Tory leaders are no hypocrites, Mr Heffer says") [clash between "wets" and "dries"] |
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80 Feb 26 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: Leading Article "The Road to Hyper-Inflation is paved with good intentions" (Hayek's annotated copy) ["shoot-out at the Downing Street corral"] |
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80 Mar 3 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism: a reply to the critics" (Friedman article) |
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80 Mar 5 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism and hyper-inflation" (Hayek letter) |
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80 Mar 18 Tu | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Free market" (Hayek letter defending Friedman) |
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80 Mar 26 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "How to deal with inflation" (Hayek article) |
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80 Mar 29 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Professor urges Chancellor to balance Budget now" (Hayek at IEA lunch) [wants "referendum to rescind every single [union] privilege"] |
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80 May 7 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Steel: "Threatened revolt over steel chief collapses" (meeting between Joseph and Conservative backbench committee regarding Ian MacGregor appointment) |
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80 May 31 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
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80 Jun 6 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “New moves over the Falklands” (Argentine Economy Minister meets MT & other British ministers) |
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80 Jun 13 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "A testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
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80 Jul 15 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Defence Open Government Document 80/23 ("The Future UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Force") [acquiring Trident] |
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80 Aug 29 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO statement ("Human Rights Trials in the Soviet Union") [need for a searching examination of Soviet implementation of Helsinki Final Act at CSCE Madrid meeting; MT annotates - 'Excellent'] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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80 Nov 1 Sa | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Ukraine Research Group press release ("Madrid: Con or Conference?") [human rights violations in Ukraine, economic situation] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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80 Nov 12 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "The Hayek cure: bigger and better bankruptcies" (Hayek interview) ["my hopes of Britain saving herself have shrunk a little"] |
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80 Nov 18 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Minister’s visit to consult Falklands people” (Nick Ridley & leaseback) |
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80 Nov 24 Mo | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Argentine anger over Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
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80 Nov 26 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Transfer of Falklands sovereignty proposed” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
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80 Nov 27 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Lord Carrington says Britain will honour wishes of Falklanders” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
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80 Nov 28 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Britain puts forward four options on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
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80 Nov 28 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “An Option For The Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [Third Leading Article] |
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80 Dec 1 Mo | Press | ★★★★ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservativsm: “Lord Vaizey’s change of party” (announces conversion from Labour to Conservative) |
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80 Dec 1 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Abuse of union power 'main cause of jobless'" (Hayek paper for IEA) [unions "cannot understand they are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs"] |
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80 Dec 3 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Commons is united by suspicion of Ridley intentions on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [minister badly mauled in Commons] |
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81 Jan 14 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Bank of England) | Economic policy: Dow minute for Governor (Wass meeting) ["despairing worry at the developing recession and the growing unemployment ... kickback if civil servants started to try to tell Ministers about politics"] [declassified 2011] |
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81 Feb 25 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Budget: Wolfson minute to MT (comments on MT-Howe meeting) ["professional incompetence ... self-delusion ... Criminal Liability"] [released 2011] |
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81 Mar 5 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Communists heckle Mrs Thatcher in church" (St Lawrence Jewry speech) [MT: "you see why I fight these people"] |
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81 Mar 10 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Economists criticize Government" (Hayek & Friedman on BBC Panorama ) [blaming wets] |
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81 Mar 10 Tu | Press | ★★★★ | Thatcher memoirs | Economy: The 1981 budget [memoirs extract] |
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81 Mar 11 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: Editorial: “The Chancellor’s Conundrum” ("appears to go on digging the hole still deeper") |
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81 Mar 13 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Budget: "'Cabinet Men Warn on Budget" (7 rebel ministers) [Whitelaw, Carrington, Pym, Prior, Walker, Gilmour & Soames] |
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81 Mar 16 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Advice and consent" (Hayek letter) [does not act as an adviser "on particular decisions"] |
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81 Mar 24 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Mr Lawson attacks gloom mongers" [defence of 1981 Budget] |
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81 Mar 24 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Dry" [brief biography of Lawson] |
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81 Apr 4 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Hayek letter on the 364 economists) ["lost generation of British economists ... panicky mob"] |
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81 Apr 4 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Harris letter on the 364 economists) ["charge sheet of those responsible for ... economic decline"] |
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81 May 13 We | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: International Representation for the Council of Evangelical Baptist Churches of the Soviet Union news release ("KGB Rushes Trial of Baptist Pastor Dmitri Minyakov") [illegal investigation, further arrests] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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81 Aug 25 Tu | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: International Representation for the Council of Evangelical Baptist Churches of the Soviet Union news release ("Five Years in Labor Camp for Preaching the Gospel") [trial of Minyakov] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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81 Sep 15 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Lawson - Backing with gusto for monetarism" [Lawson enters the Cabinet] |
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81 Sep 15 Tu | Press | ★★★★ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Three Cabinet ministers sacked" (reshuffle) [purging the wets] |
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81 Oct 7 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Heath blast at Thatcher's 'dreary path'" (Manchester speech) [MT rebuts] |
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81 Oct 7 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Pathfinder for a Young Pretender" (leader on Heath's Manchester speech) [his views discounted] |
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81 Oct 8 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Invitation that did not come" (Heath letter correcting leader) [never invited to join MT's team] |
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81 Oct 9 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The Troubled Ranks of Tuscany" (leader on Changing Gear ) [party in "the early stages of demoralisation"] |
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81 Oct 10 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Mrs Thatcher can't expect blind loyalty" (Chris Patten article) ["truth ... lies somewhere in the middle"] |
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81 Oct 13 Tu | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "'Blue Chips' to aid party in Croydon" (all 14 to visit) [demonstration of loyalty] |
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81 Oct 15 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Impassioned plea by Heath gets short shrift from Tories" (attacks government at party conference) |
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81 Oct 15 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Chancellor launches onslaught on 'union irresponsibility'" (Howe clashes with Heath) |
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81 Oct 16 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Thatcher faces growing rift in Cabinet" (Tebbit speech - father "didn't riot. He got on his bike, & looked for work") |
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81 Oct 16 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Monetarists warn wets: stop playing with fire" (Lawson & Walters speeches) |
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81 Oct 20 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Elections: “Distant encounters of the Heath kind” (Heath campaigining for Conseravtives in Croydon by-election) |
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81 Oct 20 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: “A Hard winter” (Cabinet divisions over public spending plans) |
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81 Oct 20 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: “Rumblings of revolt among Tory dissidents” (meetings of wets to discucss how to put pressure on MT) |
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81 Oct 21 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Energy: "How high-speed Lawson stirred up Energy" [privatisation of energy industry] |
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81 Oct 21 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary ( The Times ) | Economy: “Cabinet fails to agree cuts in public spending” [majority resist £5,000 cuts] |
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81 Nov 19 Th | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment] |
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81 Nov 19 Th | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment] |
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81 Nov 28 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | SDP: "Heath hints he might join a Tory-SDP coalition" ("There might be invitations ... which might be acceptable") |
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81 Dec 3 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Heath scorns the 'pretence' of monetarism" (speech) [no intellectual basis] |
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81 Dec 7 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | SDP-Liberal Alliance: "Steel tells of talks with troubled senior Tories" (dissident Conservatives including junior ministers) [plus Gilmour attack] |
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81 Dec 8 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "A Tory warning from the last ditch" (Chris Patten article) [give cabinet the benefit of the doubt "one last time ... some signs of change"] |
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81 Dec 8 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Tory 'wets' set for rebellion on economy" (Gilmour Group) [around a dozen likely to abstain on Autumn Statement] |
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81 Dec 9 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Howe attacked from all sides" (debate on Autumn Statement) [14 Conservative abstentions] |
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81 Dec 10 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The Kamikaze Tory Rebels" (Ronald Butt article) [firing arrows into backs of their own side] |
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81 Dec 12 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Why Howe should heed that lorry rumble" (Geoffrey Smith article) [threat to Howe's survival] |
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82 Jan 28 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson attacks reflation lobby" ["resistance to the mounting pressure for a reflationary Budget"] |
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82 Mar 2 Tu | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | France: Conservative Party International Office press release ("Visit of Monsieur Chirac on 3rd March 1982") [programme, attendees] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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82 Mar 3 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (Guardian) | Falklands: "Threat of Action on Falkland Islands" (Buenos Aires statement following New York talks) |
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82 Mar 11 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: "Carlton Club celebrates with Thatcher as star" (MT unveils a portrait of herself at the Carlton Club) [released 2013] |
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82 Mar 19 Fr | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “New powers envisaged for police” [Whitelaw in Commons] |
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82 Mar 21 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Whitelaw faces sack over crime” [difficult week ahead; MPs believe he will eventually be fired due to row over rising crime rates in Britain] |
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82 Mar 21 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | “Whitelaw rides out the storm to clinch victory for the doves” [pressure on 'Mr Wetlaw'] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Whitelaw silences his Tory critics” [fighting defence of his record at Conservative backbench committee] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Argentines hoist a flag on Falklands” [South Georgia incident - FCO statement, sceptical of Argentine official involvement] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (Sun) | “Falklands invaded by rebels” [Argentine flag raised on "remote isle of Grytviken (population 250)"] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (South West Atlantic Group) | “Press release from the South West Atlantic Group (SWAG)” [welcomes strong reaction in Parliament yesterday to South Georgia incident; urges again government to reconsider withdrawal of HMS Endurance] |
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82 Mar 24 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Victorious Whitelaw gains his reward” [PM's endorsement of Whitelaw record in face of party criticism] |
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82 Mar 24 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “'The ministry of short, sharp shocks” [profile of Willie Whitelaw & the Home Office] |
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82 Mar 24 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Falklands landing raises clamour in Commons” [South Georgia incident - Commons statement, pressure to retain HMS Endurance] |
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82 Mar 25 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Navy sails to aid Falklands” [Argentines illegally on South Georgia cannot be allowed to remain, Hunt says; "If Argentina won't take them away, we will"] |
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82 Mar 25 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Incident in the Falklands” [Air Commodore Frow letter on South Georgia and withdrawal of HMS Endurance; "It is still not too late to cancel this madness"] |
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82 Mar 26 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Carrington reflects on influence” [Chatham House speech on Britain's outsized role] |
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82 Mar 27 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “'Work with police' call by Whitelaw” [speech to Conservative Central Council in Harrogate] |
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