Madam Prime Minister: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher (A People in focus book)
Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
IN tonight's episode of The Queen, Channel Four's five-part docu-drama, the monarch is shown emerging from a particularly tense meeting with her then prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1986. Played by actress Susan Jameson, Her Majesty turns to her private secretary Sir William Heseltine and says: "I did rather well at the meeting today, Bill. I managed to get a word in edgewise....
Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
IN tonight's episode of The Queen, Channel Four's five-part docu-drama, the monarch is shown emerging from a particularly tense meeting with her then prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1986. Played by actress Susan Jameson, Her Majesty turns to her private secretary Sir William Heseltine and says: "I did rather well at the meeting today, Bill. I managed to get a word in edgewise....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Acclaimed for her performance as a young Margaret Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley, Andrea Riseborough has, though, chosen a boyfriend with a profession unlikely to have impressed the former prime minister: a graffiti artist.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Liz Hunt is impressed by almost everything about Richard Stone's portrait of Margaret Thatcher.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
LONDON (AP).- Former British leader Margaret Thatcher returned to London's Downing Street Monday as she unveiled her own portrait, which has been installed in the official residence of Britain's prime minister. Thatcher, British leader from 1979 to 1990, joined current Prime Minster Gordon Brown and David Cameron, a successor to Thatcher as Conservative Party leader, at...
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Tony Blair's support for George Bush on Iraq was torn apart as a former senior aide said Margaret Thatcher would have done a much better job
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
AS A political aide I have walked with Prime Ministers into Downing Street and been with them when they were turfed out. No moment was filled with more drama or emotion than when Margaret Thatcher walked from No 10 in her last moments as Prime Minister 19 years ago. We all saw the raging defiance that melted into historic tears, yet few saw the turmoil and intense pain that lay behind...
MSNBC.com: Asia-Pacific (Free subscription) | yesterday
He's no Margaret Thatcher, but Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has articulated a vision for Japan's role in the world, and it looks a lot like Westminster. Margaret Thatcher - Japan - Society and Culture - Yukio Hatoyama - History
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bruce Anderson writes: Red Toryism sounds like a paradox too far. Yet it has become the shorthand term for a new Tory think-tank. Although social justice sounds inextricably entwined with socialism, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) is another – and very effective – Tory think-tank run by Iain Duncan Smith. Does this mean that the Cameroons have repudiated Thatcherism? No, but...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... opening with Sherine's campaign because its folksy wisdom captures precisely the sort of secular Thatcherism that ResPublica has set itself up to challenge. In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher made choice the cornerstone of a political world view. Challenging the idea that the nanny state knows best, she emphasised individual choice over collective decision-making. Sherine's campaign...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... opening with Sherine's campaign because its folksy wisdom captures precisely the sort of secular Thatcherism that ResPublica has set itself up to challenge. In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher made choice the cornerstone of a political world view. Challenging the idea that the nanny state knows best, she emphasised individual choice over collective decision-making. Sherine's campaign...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | yesterday
This just in from The Caucus: "Simon Doonan, famous for creating naughty yuletide window displays of Margaret Thatcher (as a dowdy dominatrix) and Madonna (not the holy one), has a new stage on which to present his brand of mistletoe mischief: he is decorating the White House for Christmas." Holy cow. We could not be more excited. After the jump we take you through five years...
55 Secret Street (Free subscription) | yesterday
Simon Doonan, famous for creating naughty yuletide window displays of Margaret Thatcher (as a dowdy dominatrix) and Madonna (not the holy one), has a new stage on which to present his brand of mistletoe mischief: he is decorating the White House for Christmas. Mr. Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York and a tart-tongued columnist in The New York Observer, was selected several...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... was 450 miles away on his 12,000-acre Scottish estate. Pearson, who was given a peerage by Margaret Thatcher in 1990 before breaking with the Tories and joining the anti-EU group, said: "In common with usual practice, my principal residence for tax purposes has always been the house which I thought I was most likely to sell. That is normal." He added: "It would have...
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... already there working hard. Simon Doonan, famous for creating naughty yuletide window displays of Margaret Thatcher (as a dowdy dominatrix) and Madonna (not the holy one), has a new stage on which to present his brand of mistletoe mischief: he is decorating the White House for Christmas. Mr. Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York and a tart-tongued columnist in The New...
