Penny Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at The Vortex, Hackney, 30 November 2006 He also wrote Rocky Eyed, an extended poem attacking then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her government following the 1982 Falklands War which was recorded as the Crass album Yes Sir, I Will, The Death of Imagination ( a ' musical drama in 4 parts '), The Diamond Signature ( published by AK Press ) and Oh America, a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks and America's subsequent War on Terror which includes the line Give us justice which is not the searing spite of revenge, peace which is not the product of war nor dependent upon it.

The New York Daily News published Michelle Caruso's article " A Goodbye As The Sun Sets In The West " ( June 12, 2004 ) which mentioned Scott who had been seated near former U. K. Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher: " Scott Baio who played Chachi on the hit sitcom Happy Days said: ' President Reagan made me feel proud to be an American.

The group included Þorsteinn Pálsson, Geir H. Haarde, Jón Steinar Gunnlaugsson, Kjartan Gunnarsson, Magnús Gunnarsson, Brynjólfur Bjarnason and Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, and they published the magazine Eimreiðin from 1972 to 1975 ; in the following years they followed with interest what was happening in the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher and in the United States under Ronald Reagan ; they also read books and articles by and about Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and James M. Buchanan, who all visited Iceland in the early 1980s and whose messages of limited governments, privatisation, and liberalisation of the economy had a wide impact.

In one example, convicted murderer Colin Thatcher was ordered to forfeit proceeds from a book he had published ( after being paroled from prison ) under Saskatchewan's Son of Sam law.

Thatcher has published biographies of both her parents.

Parkinson also published his memoirs in 1992, in which he claimed that, with a determined campaign, Thatcher would have won the second ballot of the Conservative Leadership election in 1990 – which her Cabinet had warned her she would lose and persuaded her to stand down.

In 1981, the publication published an interview with then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

Despite attempts by Margaret Thatcher and her government to suppress the publication and distribution of the book, Spycatcher, it was finally published in 1987, and eventually sold over two million copies around the world.

Institutional care was the target of widespread criticism during the 1960s and 1970s, but it was not until 1983 that the government of Margaret Thatcher adopted a new policy of care after the Audit Commission published a report called ' Making a Reality of Community Care ' which outlined the advantages of domiciled care.

Then Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hull North, Kevin McNamara, brought up the issue in the House of Commons, asking the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, whether she would refer the matter to the Security Commission, and asking the then Attorney-General and Conservative MP Michael Havers, whether he would ask the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate allegations published in Lobster, and prosecute Mr. Colin Wallace, for revealing details of secret service operations against Her Majesty's Government.

The novel features many real life people with their names disguised ; British Prime Minister Joan Carpenter is Margaret Thatcher ( who had only recently become the PM when this novel was published ); American president William " Bill " Matthews is James " Jimmy " Carter ( although the fictional Matthews is finishing up his 2nd term of office in the book, while Carter was nearing the end of his 1st and only Presidential term in 1979 ); his Polish National Security Advisor Stanislaw Poklewski is Zbigniew Brzezinski ; and Secretary of State David Lawrence is Cyrus Vance.

" Even Thatcher herself wrote in her 1995 memoirs, which charted her beginnings in Grantham to her victory in the 1979 General Election, that she admired Attlee, writing: " Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer.

Thatcher was described as " a radical in a conservative party ", and her ideology has been seen as confronting " established institutions " and the " accepted beliefs of the elite ", both concepts incompatible with the traditional conception of conservatism as signifying support for the established order and existing social convention.

Carol Thatcher wrote in her book Below the Parapet that her parents, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis used to joke that CHOGM stood for " Coons holidaying on government money ".

Before he had finished, Thatcher " reached into her briefcase and took out a book.

After winning the United Kingdom general election, 1979, Margaret Thatcher appointed Keith Joseph, the director of the Hayekian Centre for Policy Studies, as her secretary of state for industry in an effort to redirect parliament's economic strategies.

Although Major proved " a great disappointment to Thatcher ," he was her preferred choice as successor as she expected to " continue in control of the country as a backseat driver ".

In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.

Major entered the contest alongside Douglas Hurd on 22 November after Thatcher abandoned her plans to contest the second ballot, ending her 11 years as prime minister and 15 years as party leader.

* 1979 – Margaret Thatcher is elected to her first term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.

* 1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.

The Queen, who was favourable, Margaret Thatcher, who undertook to do everything that our Parliament asked of her, and Jean Wadds, who represented the interests of Canada so well in London ...

There were around 3, 000, 000 shareholders in Britain when Thatcher took office in 1979, but the subsequent sale of state-run firms saw the level of shareholders double to 6, 000, 000 by 1985 and by the time of her resignation as prime minister in 1990 there were more than 10, 000, 000 shareholders in Britain.

As a reaction to an anti-Sandinista statement by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her proposal to ban the use of the word itself, punk rock group The Clash used the title Sandinista!

Thatcher herself claimed philosophical inspiration from the works of Burke and Friedrich Hayek for her defence of liberal economics.

He also clashed with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher on several occasions, disliking her policy towards South Africa.

* Margaret Thatcher who had been the United Kingdom's Prime Minister since 1979 resigned as Prime Minister on 22 November 1990 after being challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Michael Heseltine because of widespread opposition to the introduction of the controversial Community Charge and the fact that her key allies such as Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe resigned over the deeply sensitive issues of the Maastricht Treaty and Margaret Thatcher's resistance to Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

The first non-Royal woman to be made Lady Companion of the Garter was Lavinia, duchess of Norfolk in 1990, the second was Baroness Thatcher in 1995 ( post-nominal: LG ).

* 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Thatcher, 49, is Britain's first female leader of any political party.

* May 4 – Counting in the previous day's British general election shows that the Conservatives have won and Margaret Thatcher becomes the country's first female prime minister, ending the rule of James Callaghan's Labour government.

In the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, the protagonist William Thatcher ( played by Heath Ledger ) poses as a noble and competes in his first jousting tournament at Rouen.

On 4 February 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the first ballot by 130 votes to 119, with Fraser coming in a distant third with 16 votes.

This was not a big enough margin to give Thatcher the 15 % majority necessary to win on the first ballot, but having finished in second place Heath immediately resigned and did not contest the next ballot.

In the third ballot on 5 April, Callaghan defeated Foot in a parliamentary vote of 176 to 137, thus becoming Wilson's successor as Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party, and remained prime minister until May 1979, when Labour lost the general election to the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister.

Mulroney and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were the first foreign dignitaries to eulogize at a funeral for an American president.

Whitelaw loyally refused to run against Heath ; however, and to widespread surprise, Margaret Thatcher narrowly defeated Heath in the first round.

However, when his second wife Mary was killed in a riding accident in 1978 in Sydney, he decided to return to active politics, first serving as a shadow minister without portfolio in the Shadow Cabinets of Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher, then serving again as Lord Chancellor from 1979 to 1987 under Margaret Thatcher.

In 1979 the administration of Edward " Red Ted " Knight organised the borough ’ s first public demonstration against the Thatcher government.

He was famously the first Cabinet minister to advise Thatcher to resign after her inadequate first-round performance in the November 1990 leadership contest ; she referred to him in her memoirs as a " candid friend ".

The first settler was John M. Moody who arrived in Thatcher with his wife and children in 1881.

The community was first settled by a Mr. Thatcher about 1740 and was later named for Charles Sergeant, an American Revolutionary War soldier.

Jonathan Thatcher was the first postmaster for the new Inwood, West Virginia.

The law was first stated in a 1975 paper by Goodhart and gained popularity in the context of the attempt by the United Kingdom government of Margaret Thatcher to conduct monetary policy on the basis of targets for broad and narrow money, but the idea is considerably older.