Categories: UK Politics, Isle Of Thanet
Margaret Thatcher Part 4 - The Takeaways
by Graham 
Leadership lessons1. Just because you were elected to fix a crisis does not mean you can operate to that leadership model foreverAll leadership styles have a finite shelf life. Thatcher would have been well advised to remember the fate of Winston Chu… more »
04/09/13 11:24:41 am, Margaret Thatcher Part3 - 1986-1991
by Graham
By 1987, Thatcher's focus seemed to have shifted to a policy change that would come to define her later years and not in a good way - the Community Charge (as it was officially known) or the Poll Tax as it was known to most people. The Community Charge… more »
Margaret Thatcher Part 2 - 1980 - 1985
by Graham
Having been elected with a comfortable majority, Thatcher set about transforming the governance and economic landscape of the UK. Her government was composed largely of new faces, younger, more radical politicians with little or no ties to any previous C… more »
Margaret Thatcher Part 1 - Why she was elected
by Graham
The column inch and bits and byte generators are at work, furiously issuing eulogies and other guff about the life and times of Margaret Thatcher. As somebody who lived in the UK during her period as Prime Minister, I am going to offer some thoughts of… more »
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should
by Graham
Background: Ramsgate has a fully-equipped ferry port, built some years ago on land reclaimed from the sea West of the current harbour. The ferry port had freight and passenger sailings for a number of years, until the previous company bailed on the arra… more »