Thisa site is maintained by the Guardian newspaper. It provides free access to a collection of materials from the newspaper relating to the life, political career and impact of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. They include newspaper articles, political comment, blog postings, podcasts, film clips and political cartoons. Topics covered include Thatcherism, the role of Margaret Thatc...

My last blog entry demolishes Polly Toynbee's pathetic puff piece for Harriet Harman, masquerading as an article on Ghana - a subject on which she is almost totally ignorant. Toynbee's piece was published in the laughably misnamed Comment Is Free section of the Guardian. Several comments referring to my piece have since been deleted by Guardian moderators. The link to my article was publ...

I have a piece on the Guardian's Comment is Free site about the rumours that Vince Cable is not too keen on replacing the Council Tax with a local income tax: I was a newly elected Liberal Alliance councillor back in 1986 when the Thatcher government began consulting over the introduction of the poll tax.Conservative members didn't want it phased in over 10 years: they wanted it at once....

Over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free blog, James Graham takes a frank and forthright look at the unguarded remarks allegedly uttered by Nick Clegg within the hearing of a Mirror journalist. Read it in full here, but here’s the conclusion: The generous interpretation is that Clegg, like both Kennedy and Ashdown before him, needs to ...

Over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free website, Nick Clegg argues that a Westminster stitch-up has seen both main parties dodge reform demands in the dash for the recess door. Here’s an excerpt: If someone had told me two months ago, in the middle of the expenses scandal, that MPs would go on their summer break

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, has spoken of his admiration for Baroness Thatcher and her Conservative government.

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Over at The Guardian’s Comment is Free website, Lib Dem blogger James Graham argues that Nick Clegg needs to admit the party’s economic differences with the Tories in public – the alternative, he warns, is that the Coalition will become rudderless. Here’s an excerpt: That the government is embarking on a programme of deep cuts

In a piece in The Guardian's Comment is Free pages today, Jean Lambert MEP reveals the truth behind Conservative leader David Cameron's apparent greening of his party. London's Green MEP reminds Guardian readers that "The eighteen-year stretch of Conservative government marked the golden age of Tory roadbuilding and airport expansion, of Thatcher's 'Great Car Economy,...

Over at the Guardian’s Comment Is Free blog, Quaequam Blog!’s James Graham argues that the Lib Dems’ spring conference ‘revealed Nick Clegg’s sense of purpose as he delivered a message of hope amid the economic gloom’. Here’s an extract: Nick Clegg’s early weakness for attention-grabbing gimmicks has been superceded by a new seriousness of purpose by