The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

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He smirked. I saw he had relaxed, knowing that because of the friggin' delay he wouldn't have to murder yet. ''Mind you,'' I said, ''she'd probably laugh if she were here. She'd laugh because she despises us. Look at your anorak. She despises your anorak. Look at my hair. She despises my hair.'' Oh, for God's sake.'' He snorted. ''Why would we do anything? No need. He got the nod. We have pals all over the place.'' When the telephone rang, it made us both jump. I broke off what I was saying. ''Answer that,'' he said. ''It will be for me.'' Duration 0:23 Featured VideoThe CBC's Ann MacMillan sums up the key questions that needed to be answered in the wake of the bombing in Brighton, England.

The armed struggle sought legitimacy in continuity – a torch of resistance passed from generation to generation. For his own pseudonym in 1973, Walsh had chosen Tom Clarke, the name of a well-known Fenian who had bombed Victorian London. Is that your great suggestion? They shoot me a bit further along the street? Okay, we'll give it a go. Exit along another line. A little surprise.''Of course, Mantel’s charmed powers of suggestion won’t be news to fans of her longer fiction, especially readers of her best-selling, Man Booker Prize-winning historical novels set in Tudor England, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies.” Over the past decade or two, Mantel has made a name for herself — no other way to put it — as one of the indispensable writers of fiction in English. (Even the creakier royals have twigged on it: In the U.K., Mantel is officially Dame Hilary now, having been granted birthday honors earlier this year.) Neave's death came just two days after the vote of no confidence which brought down Callaghan's government and a month before the 1979 general election, which saw a Conservative victory and Thatcher come to power as Prime Minister. Neave's wife Diana, whom he married on 29 December 1942, was subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon. APRIL 25th 1982, DOWNING STREET: Announcement of the recapture of South Georgia, in the Falkland Islands.

You know what men say, in the pub? They say, name an Irish martyr. They say, go on, go on, you can't, can you?'' One of the central principles of the Good Friday Agreement is that there is no single way to be Irish. It was treated as a turning point when the 2021 Northern Ireland census showed, for the first time, that more people had been brought up in Catholic than in Protestant households, but a fair number said that they weren’t religious at all. And the percentage of Catholics in the Republic has fallen to seventy-eight, a number that includes many whose first language is Polish or Portuguese. The I.R.A., for that matter, was never as Catholic, in a religious sense, as its martyrology might suggest, in part because it also had a Marxist streak. Today, Sinn Féin is the largest party in the North, and one of the largest in the Republic, not because of its militancy but because of its Bernie Sanders-like social program. Mary Lou McDonald, who succeeded Adams as the Party’s leader, has a decent chance of becoming the next Taoiseach, or Prime Minister.

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I’m not shooting her because she doesn’t like the opera. Or because you don’t care for – what in sod’s name do you call it? – her accessories. It’s not about her handbag. It’s not about her hairdo.” I am concerned with respect, I'm not concerned with taste. I would have happily concluded the story in her lifetime but couldn't – it was my technical difficulty, not any delicacy. I believe in walking that line. You mustn't be too timid to risk getting it wrong." He glanced up. He'd not looked at me before, not to see me; I was just the tea-maker. ''The way it just hangs there,'' I explained. ''Instead of being in corrugations. I ought to have it washed and set. It ought to go in graduated rollers, she knows where she is with that sort of hair. And I don't like the way she walks. 'Toddles', you said. She'll toddle round. You had it right, there.'' I'll leave you gagged and taped,''he says. ''In the kitchen. You can tell them I did it the minute I burst in.''