Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Back in London he noticed that ‘a curtain had come down’. Thatcher’s press secretary, Bernard Ingham, described Biffen as a ‘semi-detached’ member of the cabinet. Asked to respond, Biffen used a more forthright metaphor. ‘I said I thought Ingham was the sewer not the sewage.’ As soon as Thatcher secured her third victory in 1987, Biffen got the boot. Yet he acknowledges his debt to Ingham for providing a title for his book.
― milord z (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
I have a copy of that Francis Pym book! I bought it from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester when I went there to see Momus perform
― soref, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
http://www.kattene.net/DSC00207.jpg
― sarahell, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/849591196163444f369373d01bfb6919d412ff71/0_106_2328_1398/master/2328.jpg?w=1920&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=00c842c85b77aa31914e10694d75aaa6
― figuratively if not literally crushed by boxes of despair (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 01:05 (eight years ago) link
so what's the story there then
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 03:32 (eight years ago) link
n/m, found it
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/30/thatcher-tried-to-block-bad-taste-public-health-warnings-about-aids
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 03:33 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pvpfF8d.jpg
― сверх (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
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― hot doug stamper (||||||||), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link