Noel Gallagher, the former member of rock band Oasis, has said Britain has lost the work ethic it had under the first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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

Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair had voice coaching which may have helped their rise to the top, but not all politicians were able to command such respect with their voices.

Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone writes a monthly column for one of her local newspapers. Here is the latest edition, looking at Parliamentary representation. Our Parliament has come a long way in recent years. In fact, watching ‘The Iron Lady’ with Margaret Thatcher sticking out like a blue female sore thumb amongst the total male

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...

Richard O’Rawe’s account of the 1981 hunger strike has suffered yet another major blow which might actually finish off once and for all his scandalous accusations. Recently Brendan Duddy’s archive, which includes his ‘diary’ for the hunger strike, was released and can be read here. Until now, O’Rawe has relied on partial interpretations of Duddy’s arc...

The SNP MSP Margaret Joan McAlpine has got herself into a bit of trouble:What I said that day was clipped on some television bulletins in a way which cut me off mid-sentence so that I seem to be saying that Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Tories were anti-Scottish, full stop.But there was no full stop. The sentence goes on to say “in coming together to defy the will of the Scottish people

The Labour leader Ed Miliband has been determined not to define himself by picking fights against his own side. He didn’t want to do a Blair or a Cameron and triangulate his way to power. Rather, his model was, in one respect, Thatcher. His team were struck by how she managed to move the political centre from opposition. But Miliband now finds his own side picking fights against him. As...

The Iron Lady cast a steely shadow over the Westminster village last week. Memories of Baroness Thatcher’s reign of heavy metal terror still strike fear in those who inhabited the place in the days when she would mercilessly handbag anyone who dared to cross her path. Last week, of course, her major Hollywood biopic was

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...