mark: your new margaret thatcher? >> i did know margaret thatcher. to our house and we would go to her place and so she appointed me to it take her place on the margaret thatcher archive trust. so i knew her quite well. but with her, it was this fabulous sense of moral w conviction that you weren't just doing this, making these great reforms in great britain in order to get richer. you are doing it in order to be a better person. and that was tremendously powerful. people would undergo a lot of privation in that sense as well. if they ultimately think what you are doing his rights. mark: nic the great readers have enormous stamina and energy, they never sleep they are constantly thinking about things. trying to think ahead. >> that is absolutely true. margaret thatcher would only sleep for four hours at night. winston churchill he would have a nap in the afternoon, carried on till two or 3:00 o'clock in the morning working. after his one hour nap he believed that effectively gave him two days. hitler was lazy, he is the one person that actually, he j

and none since target thatcher either.r want to talk about the war effort a little bit later in the program, but one of the things that always troubles me, as an american, is after the war effort this tremendous leader is thrown out of office. how did that happen, why did that happen. >> it was catastrophic for him. he won the war effectively and he then loses a general election defeat, a landslide victory against him and it happened because people wanted more. at the end of the second world war they felt they deserved to have all the goodies. they didn't really look into national healthcare, nationalization of the bank of england and all sorts of welfare state. mark: did he oppose most of those? >> no, he actually came up with some of the ideas himself 30 years before, but the british people didn't think that he was going to be able to deliver them in the same way the labor party were offering to deliver them and it took some time before they worked out that we couldn't actually afford all of the things they were offering

he and margaret thatcher disagreed about this. margaret thatcher like held that mutually assured destruction avoided world war iii. reagan thought it was fundamentally immoral, and he wanted to move toward a policy that would not just freeze weapons -- he opposed a nuclear freeze -- but eliminate nuclear weapons. and so these two things, right, his anti-communism and his nuclear abolitionism are going to come in conflict with one another when he is in office. he in his memoirs, in his autobiography, claimed these two things always work in tandem with one another. i think that is sort of wishful thinking, looking back. there are times when you how do you get to abolishing nuclear weapons? you probably have to work with soviets in one capacity or another if you are going to get there. he is going to run into problems because of these seemingly paradoxical ideas. soviets do, in 1983, really begin to praise the president. 1983 is the year that conservatives feel that ronald reagan comes into his own in terms of embracing a conservativ

new concept and scottish politics for for many many years successive prime ministers even margaret thatcher accepted the job at the of. beans for the sh t. would provoke the pan the situation was all that changed i don't know i'd really like to know those that myself because even m.l.s. to jack the scotland secretary said as recently as last autumn that if in the end the 2021 scottish general election there was a there was a majority in favor of independence then that would be a mandate for a referendum he just this last weekend he's changed his tune in that possibly because of boris i think it's also interesting to look at the northern ireland situation there are many similarities in as much as northern ireland voted remain the majority voted to mean as indeed the majority in scotland did but northern ireland has come out of this with a very nice do it's good another bumper bonus coming a long down the tracks but significantly in the northern ireland agreement there was provision that if a majority of people in northern ireland wanted reunification they could have a porter to say to a saw

column willy welcome to going underground how come you're still alive and why is the book called thatcher spy. it's going to strange but i think i'm a very lucky person. it's one of those things that you know when you've been where i've been and you get taken notes and you know you've had a lucky escape as time goes on you miss the adrenaline because we lived on around i lived around but i suppose the reason i'm a lady is i still practice. you know driving rain around about 3 times and going back the way i came or walking down the street. and look another set in the wonder when i'm really looking across the street to see is behind me and thatcher's by. i don't know where i got the. the name from i think was because there was i work in as a soldier undercover and you know i don't really believe or think that i was an important and then when i was taken out of terry and within 4 days i'm on mrs tice's jet leave in belfast take on the london and my family's you know my wife and my 2 sons and my daughter i think it's great. and i'm just sitting there thinking you know this was buy into condor

wereer reagan nor thatcher uniformly market oriented. days, and let's face it, we were reacting against the statism of the 1950's in the 1960's and the 1970's, the sclerosis of the 70's in particular. in those days, there was a great deal of enthusiasm for markets. i think today, while we all accept that markets are the best engine of wealth generation, i think we also accept that wealth generation is not the only thing that we should be on about and that the social fabric is incredibly important as well as the will of our country. this is a bit of a long-winded discourse. but another -- but nevertheless, takes onk conservatism the temper of the times. the days of back in the clinton election, there was that phrase "the economy is stupid." i think these days, the quote would be to say "society is stupid." we are more conscious of the importance of the bonds of solidarity today than we might have been 20 or 30 years ago. walter: terrific. thank you. now i wanted to turn to a question more international. it gets right to the topic of your

. >> margaret thatcher - the union of the united kingdom. >> thank you, mister speaker. thank you, mister speaker. margaret thatcher, accepted that the union of the united kingdom could only be maintained by to send. and the s&p government does not have a mandate to organize an independence referendum so tell me what mechanism is available to the scottish people to give their consent for maintaining, exercising that. >> i can only repeat my point that the scottish people in 2015, it is a referendum and it took place and as members opposite, all concerned, devon morris. >> mister speaker, you were a northern -- the news that more money spent in the north of england. i want to reiterate the eden project. and back in north whorom again. >> i heard from my right honorable friend, the chancellor. the house would know the region -- the eden project has become different. >> more than two years - 4000 other low income workers across the uk who have waited 20 years for money that is rightfully theirs. there was a breakthrough to pay millions of pounds, any penny possible from tho

a lot of brexit tears th we ll be small state, low tax, a thatcher government.ere you have a prime minister who is very interventionist. there are real conflicts actually is that the new conflict within the conservative party? >> he certainly believes in intervention. he wants that flex ability to do it. christian: this is the airline that cropped up last wee >> that did happen under atcher. i was instructed to save the company icl twice. i think he is much more flexible. he is very commithed to approve north. that will be the touchstone of boris. ry interesting. i have been setting up technical schools. at the end of the day, i listed 11 of them in already seats. in the morning, they were all labour members of parliament. in the evening, they were all conservative members. we won all sorts of seats. it was a complete change. borsis got his support by getting the working class to support him. the group that we did worst with are the ab's. >> narrator: funding for this presentation is made possible by... man: babbel, an online program developed by language specia

and mr mack cole that hairstyle is in dispute really that of margaret thatcher particularly with what looked like to be pearls on the is around her. for me you know protest in paris is complete intil we have met this gentleman this is baptist and every protest he is out with a new so i mean in this distinctive color in so many 1st ashore porlock i'm joining the fight for social justice the environment democracy democracy everything is going wrong this is a democratic emergency the politicians is not performing his duties and. both on the simple message is to do more humorist messages it seems you can pretty much find anything on a placard at a protest in front and from everybody we've spoken to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest band is out here in sharing is to make sure that they seen in the crowds show that you can ski r.t. in paris. that's a global news wrap up for this hour thanks for tuning in. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you

really the heart of margaret thatcher future. actually with what looked like to be pearls on the is around. for me no protest in paris is complete intil we have met this gentleman this is baptist and every protest he is out with a new so i mean in this distinctive color in germany 1st ashore boy like i'm joining the fight for social justice the environment democracy democracy everything is going wrong this is a democratic emergency the politicians are not performing their duties and acting to help from pink color well from the simple message is to the more humorous messages it seems you can pretty much find anything on a placard a protest in france and from everybody we've spoken to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest band out here in showing is to make sure that they seen in the crowds show that you can ski r.t. in paris. a new report has revealed that the u.k. failed to notify other countries about 75000 crimes committed by their nationals in britain according to the guardian newspaper the h

margaret thatcher has been quoted as saying there is no such thing as society. it's obvious why these kinds of people don't want us to think about the collective good, about the commons, about our interdependence, because that's -- when we know that in our hearts, that's when we start to organize. women for evolutionary reasons, biological reasons, very profound reasons are less vulnerable to the disease of individualism. we just are. way back, hunter gathering time, the men would go out as individuals with their spears to get the tigers. it was always iffy if they were ever going to bring any meat back. it was hard, and it was an individual task of great courage. but the women stayed back and they helped each other. they helped raise each other's children, they helped deliver each other's children. human babies are the hardest of all to deliver and raise because our heads are so big, you know. e.o. wilson once said that he thought maybe god granted the gift of intelligence to the wrong species. he should have given it to species that don't eat meat and have no

. >> margaret thatcher. >> here here. >> . [screaming]. [inaudible conversation] [background sounds] >> margaret thatcher. the union of the united kingdom can only be maintained yet despite one in three elections, to pay of the asante government, referendum printed. [inaudible conversation] exactly what mechanism is available to the scottish people do you get their states or otherwise, to continue their isunion rated r people exercisig that. >> i review my. the scottish people do have a mechanism in the use and in 2014. a sneak referendum. it took place and it was out as many that all confirmed that it was a once - >> here here. >> thank you mr. speaker. you've been a welcome to discuss more money it's been in the north of england. >> yeah yeah; to reiterate the project the my prime minister, about the subject back again, on the face on this earth. >> yeahag yeah. [inaudible conversation] >> he does indeed mr. speaker the project now thanks is very likely. >> for more than two years, i have been come on how long 4000 other roots of workers

been disabused really the heart of margaret thatcher particularly with what looked like to be pearls on the is around. for me you know protest in paris is complete intil we have met this gentleman this is your baptist and every protest he's out with a new so i need in this distinctive coloring so many 1st ashore pour like orange juice joining the fight for social justice to the environment democracy that democrats everything was going through him out of this is a look at. the politicians this is not who he was he's a nice to watch telly something incredible from everybody we've spoken to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest banishes out here in sharing is to make sure that they seeing in the crowds show that you can ski artsy in paris with a breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week thanks for tuning in. what politicians do. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president. some want to reach. out to the right person it's like. you know people. i mean. there's the holes in the water us

that of margaret thatcher if you take it with what looked like to be pearls on the is around. for me no protest in paris is complete until we have met this gentleman this is john baptist and every protest he's out with a new so i mean in this distinctive coloring buzzers a straw man 1st a straw poll joining the fight for social justice the environment democracy democracy everything is going wrong this is a democratic emergency the politicians are not performing their duties and acting to help the people both on the simple message is to do more humorous messages it seems you can pretty much find anything on a plaque out at a protest in front and from everybody we've spoken to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest band is out here in sharing is to make sure that they seen in the crowds show that you can ski aussie in paris just approaching 20 minutes into the hour we're going to a short break now but you were 1st of big news stories right after that stay with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

and mr mack all that hair style this is really the art of margaret thatcher particularly with what will look like to be pearls on the is around her. for me no protest in paris is complete intil we have met this gentleman this is baptist and every protest he is out with a new so i mean in this distinctive color in germany 1st. joining the fight for social justice the environment democracy democracy everything is going wrong this is a democratic emergency the politicians are not performing tonight to get help. from everybody we've spoken to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest band out here in sharing is to make sure that they seen in the crowds show that you can ski r.t. in paris. lastly some world news in brief police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in lebanon on friday $100.00 were injured as police broke up the crowd in the capital demonstrators are into a 3rd month a protest demanding economic reform and early elections the prime minister has been . expected to announce a new cabinet on friday but failed to do so. officers have resp

another set in the wonder when i'm really looking across the street to see these behind me and thatcher's by. i don't know where i got the. name from i think it's because there was i work and there's a soldier undercover and you know i don't really believe or think that i was an important and then when i was taken out of terry and within 4 days i'm on mrs tice's jet leave in belfast to go on the london and my family's you know my wife and my 2 sons and my daughter i think it's great. and i'm just sitting there thinking you know this was plain to conjure this way we use so stupid i'm going to get at that and the shadowy m i 5 s is like the f.r.u. in a 2nd let's go back a bit and go back to how you became a spike as he left the army. and some ago alan reece morgan said he has wanted you to go home and spy on your neighbors and friends put you in place before harold wilson is elected yes and why would you join the british colonial power that was responsible of as you say in the book they were the are you see in particular raided your own mother's house well you're a catholic when i when i wh

to be to mrs thatcher took a special interest in the air for you group you outlined the fact that she was specifically interested in in this group she would have been aware of these atrocities she would have been briefed that the war against terrorism has been won and that there is a unit on the growing gallery intelligence and knowledge and also the f.r.u. did deals with apartheid south africa did you ever have a gun the african can know that you know of any air for you people that had south african guns you know there's been a lot of stuff about how arms smuggling was done with the connivance of m i 5 these are the allegations from arms traders and from apartheid south africa or arms corps the obviously fighting males mandela this is a learned thing that ever had i ever notice was i mean as the old soldier i mean i knew we had s n g's in the brain things but some of the hundreds i had an affair he had very strange looking weapons and they certainly weren't weapons of war issued by the british government i'm going to get on to talk about omar and i mean there has been previous allega

gardner is a foreign policy analyst at the heritage foundation and former aide to lady margaret thatcher in the united kingdom welcome all thank you very much for being here but before we start lest you think donald trump made a statement about nato in the middle east on a whim the next day he followed up with this exchange and i actually had a name. nato and then you have the middle east you know they told me i said what a beautiful name nato member good name straight u.s.m.c. and like the song y.m.c.a. everybody nobody could remember us m.c.s. it think of the song y.m.c.a. now everybody says it they don't remember the previous name of a big deal. commonly known as nafta you know if you add the words if you add the 2 words released at the end of it because that's a big problem that's a big source of problems and they told me it does not work beautifully thank you that. heather setting the village people and y.m.c.a. aside is the term serious seems to be serious seems to be giving this some thought on needle playing a much bigger role in the middle east well certainly the trumpet ministr

forties but together and said it doesn't matter we would be back in 4 years' time this woman mrs thatcher composited last should be out in 4 years we'll see when our mid forty's we will no 15 your cabinet so it's spreading out in front of us i but i think i would foolishly optimistic i don't hear any very regular people wear the same respect. meanwhile in iran ayatollah khamenei uses the islamic clergy and their network of mosques to consolidate his grip on the country. the referendum on the establishment of the islamic republic was essentially a plebiscite and there was no secret ballots anyone voting against would immediately be labelled as an enemy of the revolution. a lot of people voted because they stamped your identity card and they would they were worried about the fact that if they didn't vote they would lose their jobs so 98 percent of the population involved. people differently don't islami the public yes or not they don't we don't telling us that what is the republic. will mean khamenei was a very skilled strategist consulate that when he came to power he talked about the musl

margaret thatcher at the heritage foundation, was terrific to talk to you. >> my pleasure, thank youmuch. >> eric: thank you for being with the spirit a lot more as the fox news channel coverage continues have iranian strikes and what the president may say about it later this morning. stay with us. >> eric: breaking point of the middle east late last night, iran fired 15 ballistic missiles into iraq hitting two bases and housing u.s. personnel. thankfully the pentagon said there was no injuries or any casualties among the u.s. troops or others. iran is claiming possibly for propaganda purposes that about 30 american troops were killed. we expect the president to speak about this several hours from now later on this morning eastern time. but you know, the strike is the latest in a long series of escalatory events dating back to iranian revolution back in 1979. benjamin hall is life in jordan with the latest where just after 9:30 in the morning. in the damage is being assessed, hi, benjamin. >> good morning, eric. yes we have been waiting for the sun to rise in the middle east. the dam

kingdom needs and of discussion from there on everything else was going to get he explained to mr thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and the full things were done differently. they wanted $43000000000.00 with a weapon that was $6000000000.00 increment. the majority of most people understand this broad. we'll continue to work together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life a pacifist. one day i started crying and it was a mad tool. actually he said i've been working for a travel company and we had a kind of slush fund we used to distribute to saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the past films deal with the law. and he tell these extra interest stories that when saudi military officers would come along he would present them with canteens of cut 3 that was something that they liked another thing they liked was girls so he. he would take about the town get the girls. to be honest it's not quite small beer payments made some of them from rather on as nomic activities and chips to the talks about cool downs that sort of thing there's only 2 th

as did margaret thatcher.g the show. she felt britain wasn't getting a good deal, and france was. she felt that britain wasn't getting a good deal in france wasn't getting a good deal in france was a. gas, where we paid less. we resented that for a start. when she came backjust a few days before she was toppled from power, she said... "i want the ministers to be the cabinet of europe, and i want to the civil servants to be... goes back she said no to them, in a fortnight later she was out of office. in the best tabloid headline ever. know what i'm thinking of? whoever wrote bravo secular i have a question about the new conservative government. what is johnson about the new conservative government. what isjohnson is him? lots of brexiteers thought that brexit meant low tax, a thatcherite government. here you have a prime minister who actually is very much to the centre, their interventionist, and there were real conflicts. it is exe big government secular is that the new government in the conservative party? a

wherin we come to the reagan and thatcher era. so, i hate to bring up the guy in the context of his recent funeral when he was roasted and toasted as the great leader but he was frankly also behind the brainstorm of this so called neoliberal agenda, which is a whole set of policies you see embodied in the current w.t.o. , which replaced the gatt which you see in the current world bank, which is a whole formula that basically translated the conservative vision of reagan, of thatcher, and implemented it. now, here's what is very interesting about it. it's a set of policies that in domestic legislatures in numerous countries had been rejected. i mean, there's the stuff we know about. there's trade liberalization. ok. but there's also investment liberalization and what that means is not allowing governments to regulate who owns land, to be able to regulate things like zoning. it's like all the big box fights about the kmart stores and the wal-marts. the way that's regulated is basically a retail service investor, cannot occupy more th

the huge looks like the son of margaret thatcher and mr mack all that hair style is. really the art of market share particularly with what looks like to be pearls on the is around. for me no protest in paris is complete intil we have met this gentleman this is your baptist and every protest he is out with a new so i mean in this distinctive color in your straw man you 1st. joining the fight for social justice the environment democracy everything is going wrong this is a democratic emergency the politicians are not performing their duties and acting to help the people both on the simple message is to do more humorous messages it seems you can pretty much find anything on a plot at a protest in front from everybody we've spoken to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest band out here in showing is to make sure that they seen in the crowd show that you can ski artsy in paris. but threaten to impose a 25 percent charo on european carmakers if germany france and the u.k. didn't accuse it of violating the 2015 year clear deal that has been c

same with margaret thatcher.e bit unfairto life. it will perhaps be a little bit unfair to sort of say to harry, you can't have any protection, because he was born into the royal family full so that was not his fault. the fact is, he is a royal family member whether he likes it or not. a lot of people would say he is entitled to the protection full so it is really whether or not it is seen it is really whether or not it is seen to be abused. i don't think harry will want to do that but moving to canada means an enormous ramping up of the potential costs because these are met police officers. they will have to fly to canada to do their shifts. after a few days, they will fly back. the carbon footprint will be enormous for a couple they want to preach about the need for us not to fly as much. there are problems, but from a personal point of view, i think it's... we personal point of view, i think it's. .. we cannot personal point of view, i think it's... we cannot strip prince harry of his real protection because w

mrs thatcher talked about it at the united nations during her speech there, but gradually it has becomezone hole that we were very worried about. before that it was colonialism, before that it was development... and is fashionable enough to trigger action? i don't think so. i don't expect anything to come out of places like davos. i went to davos, from the first meeting, for 20 years... you know, because human affairs cannot be planned. this is a pseudo—marxian idea that some people can sit down... i am going to take your pseudo—marxian idea and one word from each of you on the individual action that can be planned. i know the big structural issues are less easy to plan. greg, what is your climate change commitment, your resolution for 2020? i've dropped red meat and pretty much all meet. annalisa? yes, the same, trying to be much more vegan and i cycle and i recycle. ned, do you still fly? i fly less and less, but it's a function of being 98 years old, i do a lot less of a lot of things! yeah, amir, have you given up fast fashion? no... you look very fashionable. yes, maybe i buy fewer

i think of gorbachev, i think of thatcher, i think of mitterrand, schevardnadze, a wonderful, wonderful soviet-- former soviet apparatchik who changed entirely. - you met gorbachev many times. - many times, yeah. yes, yes. david: he seemed to have done an incredible job of actualhanging the course of the world, maybe untentionally, to some extent. it wasinninten--much of it was ntional. david: so for people who are watching who would say, "wcet are the words of ador the congress or the administration davi"from the great former are secretary of state,say, secretary of treasury, chief of staff jim baker?" of the biggest threats facing our country and facing our democracy is the political dysfunction we have today in this country. we don't--you know, when i was there 25 years ago with reagan and with bush and with ford, we reached across the aisle and we got things done. it happened with carter. it happened with clinton. that doesn't happen anymore. and that's truly tragic. david: so, your pleasures are still hunting and fishing and-- james: yeah, and i like playing golf. i still go to the