Maggie and the glass ceiling
Such a commotion. So much discussion. So many protests. The Dame de fer is no more but she appears to be causing as much controversy now as she did when alive. My views on Margaret Thatcher were formed by the international media and particularly South Asian media. Her tribulations in Great Britain or her contribution to the tribulations of some in Great Britain were of less inteerst to the world, or at least I was too young to have read much about them. However in light of all the views floating on social media, newspapers, local radio and television I felt I needed another post- a snapshot of what people are saying in the UK. This quote from Russell Brand's article in The Guardian has been doing the rounds of the internet: " Barack Obama, interestingly, said in his statement that she had "broken the glass ceiling for other women". Only in the sense that all the women beneath her were blinded by falling shards. She is an icon of individualism, not of femi...