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Thames Television

Former ITV network franchise

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Nov 12, 2025
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Did Margaret Thatcher say 'The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money' and when?

Margaret Thatcher is widely credited with a pithy critique of socialism phrased as and contemporary fact-checking traces a near-verbatim instance to an interview she gave to Thames Television's This W...

Dec 18, 2025

What was the context of Margaret Thatcher's 1976 TV interview on socialism?

Margaret Thatcher’s 1976 television interview on Thames Television’s This Week codified a crisp attack on socialism — including the now-famous line that “socialist governments traditionally do make a ...

Nov 15, 2025

What is the earliest known source of the quote about running out of other people's money?

The commonly quoted line “The problem/the trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money” is most widely attributed to Margaret Thatcher and appears in contemporary coll...