... Thatcher's (b. 1925) Conservative Government (1979-1990) persistently attempted to lower taxation and public spending, follow a policy of privatisation and curb trade union power. Thatcher's association and backing from media mogul, Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931) , meant that she could attack trade unions, make striking in Britain virtually illegal and still receive positive backing from a large proportion of the media. In a quote from Harold ... in Britain and that in most cases, they have been heavily influenced by the government, by big business in the form of revenue from advertisements a...

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... that mighty empire and explain the probable causes of our actual security. "The Romans were ignorant of the extent of their danger, and the number of their enemies. Beyond the Rhine and Danube, the northern countries of Europe and Asia were filled with innumerable tribes of hunters and shepherds, poor, voracious, and turbulent; bold in arms, and impatient to ravish the ... ...

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... the rules of defence. When you think of the defence of England' he explained in 1935 (?) you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover, you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies'. The simple point about inaction is that it did not translate into a maintenance of the status quo - in the respect of the expansionist ambitions ... ...

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