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Use I even when you’re one of multiple subjects in a sentence. When there is another subject, mention them first. This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning to end." — Diana Athill.

Me and I are both first-person personal pronouns. A personal pronoun is a word that’s substituted for an individual’s name. Thatcher is a hero in the Falklands. We were totally behind her. Probably most of us have met her at some point after the war. She came several times, and the whole community would turn out to see her drive past. We have had royal visits which didn't attract crowds that big. People on their last legs would turn up. I guess we would have been under an Argentinian government if she had not stepped in, and things would have been a lot different had she not intervened. Thatcher oversaw the militarisation and politicisation of the police force as never before. At Greenham, in Northern Ireland and later in the miners' strike we saw the police used in far more political roles than before. She believed that that if she could outdo the men on toughness, including war-mongering and aggressive posturing, she could retain her position of power in the UK. Though she benefited from feminism, Thatcher was profoundly anti-feminist. She demonstrated that the issue is not biology, but power structure, values and ways of working. If the political system is structured so that a single woman gets to the top via a patriarchal structure where men retain the essential power, she will have to constantly prove that she is tougher than the men, and that she can promote their power and their interests even more aggressively than they can." Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old outsider Willem just wants to be left alone with his books and his dog. Worried he's not turning out right, his ma and her boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Training Camp. Here they 'make men out of boys'. Guaranteed.'Maggie and Me is a fashion-forward coastal boutique that specializes in casual clothes for women, girls, tweens, toddlers, and infant girls and boys. The store is also known for beautiful gifts and gift wrapping. The schoolboy Damian's choice of another path wasn't necessarily high-minded. For a tall asthmatic boy aware of his gayness, and not particularly adept at hiding it, schools and libraries were natural places of refuge. Tweaking Blanche Dubois's celebrated line, he says he has always depended "on the kindness of teachers". Even the Scripture Union had its value, more on account of the absence of bullies than the presence of Jesus. It is so rare for you to find a book which reflects so many of your own life experiences. I was totally unprepared for just how much this book would resonate with me. From 2008-2023, I ran my own Literary Salon - interviewing fellow writers, profiling indie bookshops and share all kinds of bookish content. Guests included: Jojo Moyes, John Waters, Mary Beard, Yaa Gyasi, David Nicholls, Colm Tóibín, Taiye Selasi, David Mitchell and Rose McGowan. www.theliterarysalon.co.uk I was a young man when she was in charge and it was the unelected union officials who were more powerful than the government. Strikes can be a frightening prospect when you're a small company. The strikers sent two large and three small coffins round to our house – we had three children. My wife rang me at the office to tell me and I said, 'Maybe it's time to give up.' She said, 'If you give up, I'm leaving you.' Shortly after that, it resolved itself.

And I” is so often drilled into children as the correct formulation that we can sometimes forget that it mainly applies when followed by a verb. In many situations, “and me” is actually correct. Then Mancini experienced a pandemic miracle. “The Bluffton spot found ME!” she said. “Not only did Leslie introduce me to the charm of Old Town Bluffton, but she also literally ignited the spark that became Maggie and Me Bluffton.”The book has a fantastic sense of time and place, and the sort of Scotland you don’t often read about (a particular treat for me as I grew up there at the same time as him). This is all drawn together through the almost personal relationship the British public, and Damian in particular, experienced with controversial Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the eponymous “Maggie” of the book. The struggles of the adults in the book to succeed against the often harsh influences of a woman who is supposed to be working to help them reflects Damian’s struggles with his own parent figures, and conversely with insufficient parental authority in his life, he actually flourishes by embracing the authority this hated figure represents, and turning it into inspiration for how to succeed – and succeed he does.