Margaret Thatcher's funeral: Bishop of London's sermon in full

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Telegraph:

 

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How Mrs. Thatcher Saved the British Press

Peter Robinson

4/16/13

 

From an editorial in today's London Times headlined, "Mrs. Thatcher's time in office assured the survival of this newspaper":

 

Perhaps the most telling of any opinion ever offered in The Timeson Mrs Thatcher is the verdict reached by this newspaper on May 4, 1979, the day after the general election that brought her Conservative Government to power. At this momentous event in British political history The Times said nothing at all. That was because an industrial dispute over printing methods that were already obsolete had taken The Times off the newsstands.

 

Were it not for the reforms to the power of trade unions introduced by Mrs Thatcher’s Government this newspaper would most likely not be here today to report on her funeral. Nor would many other national and regional titles whose print runs and profitability had been held hostage night after night, week after week, by the intransigence and Spanish practices of print unions that blackmailed editors with impunity.

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The Texan who stole the show at Margaret Thatcher's funeral

Elias Groll

April 17, 2013

 

After being carried through the streets of London in a flag-draped coffin aboard a gun carriage, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest this morning in St. Paul's Cathedral. But the big story of the day wasn't Maggie. No, it was a 19-year-old Texan who stole the show from the deceased Iron Lady.

 

With a poise reminiscent of the elder Thatcher, Amanda Thatcher, Margaret's granddaughter, delivered a reading from Epistles that has the British media agog. Amanda, who lives with her mother in Texas, chose a rather militant passage that calls on believers to "put on the whole armour of God." But the reading was a good one, delivered with remarkable grace by a young woman suddenly thrust into the international spotlight. In a tweet that nicely summarized the breathless[/url] British media reaction, Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland couldn't help but speculate "whether somewhere a Texas Republican operative is watching Amanda Thatcher thinking 'Wonder if she has political ambitions...'"

 

 

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Voted "most likely to change the world" by her high school classmates, Amanda was a favorite of the Iron Lady. The former British prime minister reportedly kept a portrait of her two grandchildren on a mantle alongside a picture of Sir Denis, her beloved late husband. Maggie, the daughter of a fervent lay Methodist preacher, approved of Amanda's turn toward evangelical Christianity, and she cherished her relationship with her granddaughter during her ailing later years. As the Guardian notes in its excellent profile of the young Thatchers, Amanda's religiosity lined up nicely with Maggie's hard-nosed political and social conservatism.

 

 

 

 

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The Texan who stole the show at Margaret Thatcher's funeral

Elias Groll

April 17, 2013

 

 

 

HuffPo: Amanda Thatcher Praised For Composed First Reading At Thatcher Funeral (PICTURES)

 

 

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Obama Administration Snubs Thatcher Funeral

 

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/04/18/obama-administration-snubs-thatcher-funeral/

 

President Obama’s decision not to send any significant member of his Administration to attend the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London was a regrettable decision that did disservice to the U.S.–U.K. Special Relationship.

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Obama once again shows his ignorance.

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Obama Administration Snubs Thatcher Funeral

 

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/04/18/obama-administration-snubs-thatcher-funeral/

 

President Obama’s decision not to send any significant member of his Administration to attend the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London was a regrettable decision that did disservice to the U.S.–U.K. Special Relationship.

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Obama once again shows his ignorance.

 

Regrettable is not the word I would use. Churlish, Petty, Ungracious, Unmannerly In other words just what we've come to expect from this crowd.