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They shy away from criticising the recently deceased. You should read some of their obituaries of dictators.

They are in general in favour of Thatcher. Why would you get a subscription in the first place, if that makes you cancel it? They don't keep their biases secret.

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"They don't keep their biases secret." ... er, except when they publish puff pieces trying to claim they're neither on the left nor the right!

Which seems rather accurate. Classical liberalism is liberal on both social and economic issues. The left is liberal on social issues and the right generally on the economic ones.

But Thatcher was on the hard-right socially and economically. Being pro-thatcher and claiming even a smidgen of a left-leaning stance is laughable.

Being pro-Thatcher doesn't mean that they are an unapologetic supporter of everything she ever said or did. It just means that at the time they thought on balance that she was better than the alternative the Labour party offered. An analysis that was hardly controversial at the time.

Please gentleman try to read something. If you are playing at electoral politics, you understand very little.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spect...

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/15...

Anyone in north america lives in a hard right fascist state. Both canada and the US are completely fascist, and the "liberal wing" isn't. The liberal wings of USA and canada are hard right conservative.

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