DAN ATKINSON revisits some Thatcherite fantasies by Mark Lawson. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher
Rishi Sunak: an obituary
So farewell, then, Rishi Sunak. ALWYN TURNER on yet another departing prime minister. Continue reading
‘Dig deep for the miners’
ALWYN TURNER remembers the miners’ strike of 1984-85. Continue reading
Evans above
PAUL SAFFER remembers David Evans: Tory MP, Luton Town chairman and self-declared ‘right-wing disciplinarian’. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Lurching to the Right
Sixty years of lurching… Continue reading
Calling all (historical) cliches: Winters of Discontent
When was the Winter of Discontent? Oh, pretty much every winter in the 1970s. Continue reading
‘Disreputable men’
ALWYN TURNER on reports of Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list. Continue reading
Liz Truss: an obituary
ALWYN TURNER says farewell to this week’s prime minister. Iron Lady Mk III or Ed Miliband in a frock? Continue reading
Howezat
ALWYN TURNER on Geoffrey Howe’s resignation from Margaret Thatcher’s government. Continue reading
‘Some impertinent Argentinians’
40 years on from the invasion of the Falkland Islands… Continue reading
‘The wrong kind of woman’: The early years of Liz Truss
ALWYN TURNER’s press portrait of Liz Truss’s rise, featuring Cameron’s Cuties, the Turnip Taliban and Greenham Common. Continue reading
‘A rippling mood of rebellion’
SIMON MATTHEWS reads Sheila Rowbotham’s memoir of the 1970s, featuring socialism, feminism and Barry White. Continue reading
