Margaret Thatcher was right to fear German unification
Rewind 32 years to one of those moments of great euphoria in European affairs – the reunification of West and East Germany. The celebrations were by no…
The thorny issue of Margaret Thatcher’s rose rage
Most surprising of all was Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen (Radio 4, Friday) a new sitcom by the comedy writer David Quantick and starring, rather wonderfully,…
Thatcher & Reagan: A Very Special Relationship, review: a touching insight into a unique bond
What was it about the handsome Hollywood film star Ronald Reagan that Margaret Thatcher liked so much? Of course, they were close political allies with an ideological…
A ‘bloody shambles’: The Falklands War seen through the eyes of its soldiers and leaders
‘After 40 years, it’s time the full story was told,” said General Sir Mike Rose at the beginning of Falklands War: The Untold Story (Channel 4). This…
David Hare: If Thatcher had been in charge during Covid, ‘I don’t think so many people would be dead’
Since his recovery he has “streamlined” his daily life to prioritise his writing – and discovered that “if you just write, you will write an awful lot.”…
We all pulled together through Covid – why can’t we the rest of the time?
Speaking (via Zoom, of course) to Her Majesty the Queen at the height of the pandemic, Derek Grieve, a lynchpin of the Scottish vaccination programme, told the…
Society can’t afford the dangerous decadence of the woke movement
The Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom in Washington DC is where British Tories go to let their hair down ideologically. It occupies an entire floor of the…
Liz Truss and the photos that show her Margaret Thatcher makeover
“This can’t be a coincidence,” says Anand Menon, director of the UK in a Changing Europe think tank. “She’s appealing to the electorate, which is pretty sensible…It’s…
Meet Ben Houchen, the Tory mayor who’d have Mrs Thatcher spluttering into her tea
‘What we’re trying to say to young people is: “Look, if you want to fight climate change, if you want to give back to the world, you…
Ben Elton: ‘I recognise Mrs Thatcher was a woman of principle’
It would be fascinating to time-travel between then and now, between Elton’s old sets and his new one. The upstart raised in Catford, south-east London, who became…
Sajid Javid is yet to find his voice as Health Secretary. Time is running out
Sajid Javid was once described as “more Thatcherite than Thatcher”. His Ministerial office is adorned by a picture of the Iron Lady. At his 2019 leadership campaign…