As the affair with Sara Keays, and his injunction to gag their daughter, showed, Thatcherism was about privatisation. You could do what you liked if you could pay for it We must not speak ill of the ...

This is no passing crisis, it is existential. Look at the polls – people don’t want the Tories or their agenda any more The spectacle of the shipwrecked Conservative party is a wonder to behold. Boris ...

Today, when we think of Thatcherism and the birth of neoliberalism, the new economic order Margaret Thatcher helped install, we think of striking miners, yuppies and riots from Brixton to Toxteth. But ...

Late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher leaves a lasting legacy through her ‘Thatcherism’ policies she instituted during her premiership. EPA/Gerry Penny On the eve of her resignation as British ...

The day after the announcement of the Coalition I sat down to work through the nature of the surprise. I argued that while the Tories were back in No 10 the coalition meant more than just the very ...

The Daily Star set up a livestream of its lettuce decaying in real time. This dying vegetable was about as interesting as Wednesday’s livestream of Prime Minister’s Questions from the House of Commons ...

The government is "ripping up the roots of Thatcherism" with its plans to bring train and bus services back under public control, the transport secretary has said. In a speech to Labour Party ...

European politicians may not agree on much, but -- from Brussels to Berlin -- one sentiment seems depressingly common: "I'm not Margaret Thatcher." They may not put it quite that bluntly, but they ...

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone, by Charles Moore (Allen Lane, 880 pp., $24.06) Right after World War II, Labour prime minister Clement Attlee, overly ...

The organisers of a Liverpool conference dedicated to Margaret Thatcher say they have received “threats to put delegates in hospital”. The Thatcher Network, which promotes historical research into Mrs ...

After 12 years in power, the Conservative Party is utterly devoid of talent and ideas. From the start of her campaign, Liz Truss was seen as awkward, robotic and rigidly ideological by her fellow MPs ...