Tom knew the best people, threw the best parties, and was the best of friends. The post The Tom Stoppard I Knew appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage The Tom Stoppard I Knew Tom knew the best people, threw the best parties, and was the best of friends. UK Special Coverage Photo by Neil Libbert/Getty Images I grew up in a Buckinghamshire village called Iver, living for 18 years in a Queen Anne house called Copthall. In the early 1970s, when I was about 10, a glamorous couple moved to the other end of the village: Tom and Miriam Stoppard. Tom soon became a close friend of my father, the historian and journalist Paul Johnson. I suppose there weren’t many other successful writers living in the village, and convenience is a powerful factor…Open
Prime Minister Andy Burnham can’t do that—because it would mean blaming himself. The post Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline Prime Minister Andy Burnham can’t do that—because it would mean blaming himself. TakiMag Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Just before becoming Britain’s prime minister in July, Andy Burnham revealed his father has late-stage dementia. Politically speaking, so does much of the Labour political class, including Burnham: its impressions of the 1970s and its lessons are foggy. In northwest England , whence Burnham hails, political dementia is a transmissible disease, particularly regarding the legacy of the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.…Open
Fmr. Advisor to Margaret Thatcher, Fmr. Member of Parliament John Browne comments on King Charles III and his address to Congress, the importance of such a spech and more.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” is a famous quote by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, […] Source
