Thatchers

Margaret Thatcher’s old Oxford college makes all students take an ‘unconscious bias’ test

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Every student at Margaret Thatcher’s old Oxford college was ordered to take a course in ‘unconscious bias’ to expose innate ‘racism, homophobia, transphobia and disability discrimination’. Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, principal of Somerville College, instructed students to complete the online class by this Friday, and told them they must ‘achieve a mark of 100 per … Read more

Are Reddit share buyers Mrs Thatcher’s dream come true?

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It is 35 years since Margaret Thatcher revealed her dream of a society ‘where owning shares is as common as having a car’.  Yet despite dogged attempts by the finance industry to get people investing, little changed for decades. For years, car owners outnumbered those with an investment account by almost four to one. But … Read more

Margaret Thatcher’s £30m six-storey bomb-proof mansion in Belgravia rented out for £65,000 a MONTH

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Margaret Tatcher’s £30million bomb-proof former mansion is being rented out for a whopping £64,978 a month.    The former Prime Minister’s plush six-bedroom home in Belgravia was put on the market for £30million five years ago, but it didn’t sell. But the home now has tenants who are forking out £779,736 per year, according to international … Read more

The Crown: Royal tragedy, Thatcher’s reign and THAT wedding: Top five moments in series four

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The Crown has made its long-awaited return to screens with the Royal Family facing a period of transition plagued by political division and the emerging of a modern icon. Series four sees the Netflix show transition from the 1970s into the 1980s, with stars Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies and Helena Bonham Carter joined by newcomers … Read more

Margaret Thatcher’s Oxford college orders students to take an anti-bias course to tackle racism

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Margaret Thatcher’s Oxford college orders students to take an anti-bias course in diversity drive to tackle racism on campus Somerville College is first Oxford college to introduce compulsory bias training Students must complete a course on ‘unconscious’ biases to tackle racism Thatcher read chemistry at Somerville in the 1940s – before men were admitted By James … Read more

How Boris Johnson inspired Margaret Thatcher’s defiant ‘No! No! No!’ speech

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In a defiant cry against further European integration, Margaret Thatcher declared to the Commons in 1990: ‘No, no, no’. Her declaration, which came at a time of intense Tory divisions over Europe, was to prove a pivotal point in her premiership. Now it has emerged that the speech was inspired by a newspaper story… written … Read more