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Margaret
Thatcher

It might be a bit of an embarrassing admission for the editor of this
weekly journal to admit to, but growing up as a preteen in the early 1980s
my heroes -- along with Montreal Canadiens forward Guy Lafleur and Pittsburgh
Penguins defenceman Randy Carlyle -- were Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
I suppose that makes me a bit of a geek.
Since
ESR has previously honored two Reagan themed web sites, it's perhaps
only appropriate that it honors one dedicated to Baroness Thatcher. Entitled
as simply "Margaret Thatcher," the web site was recently launched
and arrived around the time of the tenth anniversary of the Iron Lady's
resignation (late last year) as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
If you're too young to remember Thatcher's time in office, you missed
quite a drama, one that is chronicled at this web site. Her brand of conservative
politics, popularly known as Thatcherism, is evidenced in the collection
of speeches, articles penned by her, interviews and quotes by and about
her that the site has put together. Rounding out this tremendous database
of material are the standard chronological timeline, election results
and Conservative Party material to place it all in context.
It's a remarkable piece of work and it will interesting to see if the
Thatcher Foundation will be able to craft an official web site as useful
as this one. If you're old enough to remember fondly the days that Thatcher
and Reagan embodied conservatism in the Western world then a visit to
this web site is a must. If you aren't, then it will serve as a marvelous
introduction to a former prime minister that stands as an equal to names
like Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli.
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