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A trove of new documents released by the National Archives in the U.K. have unveiled that the Iron Lady once considered a law banning sex toys (i.e. dildos, butt plugs, nipple clamps, etc.) in an effort to promote “public decency” and prevent “physical injury.” The documents reveal the former prime minister was persuaded to consider the law by notorious antifeminist, antigay, anti-television, anti-obscenity, anti-everything campaigner Mary Whitehouse. Thatcher’s home secretary, Lord Leon Brittan, wrote to his boss in September 1986 about Whitehouse’s “strong case” for banning sex toys under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act, the same law used to prosecute the publisher of DH Lawrence’s classic romance novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

Keep Your Nipples Unclamped! Newly-Released Documents Reveal Maggie Thatcher Wanted To Ban Sex Toys / Queerty

Leave it to a conservative to misdirect feeble minded constituents' attention away from issues that really matter to a society.

Source: queerty.com

#Margaret Thatcher #Sex #UK #prudishness #obsessions #deceit #demagoguery #conservatism

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Love it.

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I love it when hagiographers of Reagan or Thatcher get told off.

#Ronald Reagan #Margaret Thatcher #neo fascism

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She reminded Ian of His Mum

Source: ianrubbish.co.uk

#Margaret Thatcher #UK #Parody #Ian Rubbish & The Bizzaros #SNL #fred armisen #taran killam #bill hader

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There's something distinctively creepy - in a Roman sort of way - about this mandated ritual that our political leaders must be heralded and consecrated as saints upon death. This is accomplished by this baseless moral precept that it is gauche or worse to balance the gushing praise for them upon death with valid criticisms.

Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette | Glenn Greenwald | guardian.co.uk

Source: Guardian

#Margaret Thatcher #death #etiquette #Glenn Greenwald

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Is Margaret Thatcher Dead Yet?

www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk

#Margaret Thatcher #UK #private sector

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Margaret Thatcher Refuses to Meet with Sarah Palin Because She’s “Nuts”

(via Tracy Knauss's Photos - Wall Photos)

Source: facebook.com

#politics #Sarah Palin #Margaret Thatcher #schadenfreude

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...as if LSD prevented Margaret Thatcher

fuckyeahdrugpolicy:

“British culture was extremely strait-laced in the 1950s - it was rigid and confined and everybody went to church. LSD blasted a hole right through the middle of that,” says Sue Hall, who was a student at Watford Art College when she first encountered LSD on a visit to London in 1966. Hall last took the drug at the 100th birthday celebrations for Hofmann in Switzerland.

For Gregory Sams and his brother Craig an LSD trip at Berkeley in California in 1967 provided an epiphanal moment that led them to London to spark a major change in British eating habits.

“It was as a direct consequence of my brother and myself taking LSD that we introduced natural and organic foods in the UK. At that point people were looking forward to the day we all live on vitamin pills. Today you can’t open a newspaper without reading about organic foods.”

(via BBC NEWS)

why, yes: it is all political to me

#Post hoc, ergo propter hoc #Margaret Thatcher #LSD #Britain