Links tagged with “margaretthatcher”
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Counter-Counter-Revolution by David Runciman (London Review of Books)
On whether 1979 was the most significant year of the 20th century. Either way, an interesting look at a handful of people and occasions that had a profound effect. Suggests we don’t know yet who our current era’s most impactful people will be.
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Exquisite Tweets from @quantick
David Quantick’s imagined mourners at Thatcher’s funeral.
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Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette | Glenn Greenwald
“There’s something distinctively creepy - in a Roman sort of way - about this mandated ritual that our political leaders must be heralded and consecrated as saints upon death.” Yes. No heralding happening here.