I remember going through a few presidents as a child (Carter, Reagan, Bush), but there only seemed to be one British prime minister: Thatcher. The passing of the Iron Lady makes me pause. I recall the news of the Falklands War and talking about it at lunch time in elementary school. Then the one or two attempts by the IRA to blow her up. And, of course, her stiffening up of Bush Sr. in advance of Desert Shield. She lost her job right around then, but Major stepped in and kept the Tories in power a few more years. It wasn’t until Blair that I finally visited the UK, right around when he was pushing the idea of Cool Britannia. So strange what I recall at a moment such as this.
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