Full marks to Ed Miliband. He had a good Prime Minister’s Questions this week. One of the reasons he did so well is that he took a leaf out of Margaret Thatcher’s book. He lowered the tone of his voice. Gone was the shrill shouting of recent weeks. Instead we had a calm, firm low
Meryl Streep is Margaret Thatcher’s doppelganger in this film, to such an extent that she arouses deep-seated feelings of hostility towards what is really only a character, so powerful and persuasive is the performance. Equally, I suppose, for one ignorant of the real Thatcher, the opening scenes of the film with its close-up examination of the cruelty and tragedy of dementia can be quite mo...
After British government documents were recently released under the thirty year rule, the controversy has re-erupted over the ‘offer’ Margaret Thatcher’s government made in July 1981, in an attempt to end the IRA/INLA hunger strikes, then taking place in the north of Ireland's notorious Maze Prison. This issue first entered the public arena in 2005, when forme...
