After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee

found 2025 › Feb › 06 (Thu) @ 17:15 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering

Now she’s an opera. Yet another myth-making…

I bought a puppy in my seventies even though she might outlive me and my vet son begged me not to. I have the ultimate answer to these worries: JENNI MURRAY

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 19:53 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

JENNI MURRAY: Last week I welcomed a new arrival to my household - a three-month-old chihuahua puppy named Maggie. Yes, at 74 I have brought home a bouncing, yapping bundle of fluff.

‘The best screen Thatcher yet?’: the art (and craft) of playing the former PM

found 2025 › Feb › 02 (Sun) @ 21:49 UTC

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Harriet Walter’s acclaimed portrayal is the latest of many screen versions. So how do you create the Thatcher persona?

Harriet Walter has become the latest in a line of actors, from Meryl Streep and …

The truth behind Margaret Thatcher's downfall: Ex-PM's closest aides speak out after Channel 4 'Brian and Maggie' retelling of 1989 TV grilling

found 2025 › Jan › 31 (Fri) @ 15:53 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Mrs Thatcher's clash with Brian Walden came days after the resignation of her chancellor, Nigel Lawson, who quit in part over the prime minister's refusal to sack her economic advisor, Alan Walters.

QUENTIN LETTS: As Channel 4's gripping drama Brian and Maggie concludes, a throwback to a time when politicians faced real TV grillings instead of being interviewed by their husbands like Yvette Cooper!

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 12:08 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Though from different parties, they were both working-class challengers to the old order and they bonded.

QUENTIN LETTS: As Channel 4's gripping drama Brian and Maggie concludes, a throwback to a time when politicians faced real TV grilling's instead of being interviewed by their husbands like Yvette Cooper!

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 06:47 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Though from different parties, they were both working-class challengers to the old order and they bonded.

Inside the real-life interview that inspired Brian and Maggie: Channel 4 docudrama retells story of explosive grilling that sparked Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher's downfall

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 16:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

TV presenter Brian Walden and then PM Thatcher had frequently sparred before their most famous - and final - interview on October 29th 1989. The historical meeting is the subject of Channel 4's lates…

The Christmas Day my mum Maggie rang the boss of General Electric - to fix the telly for the Queen's speech... and other joyous memories of the festivities at Chequers that'll make you yearn for the days when we had a REAL leader in charge

found 2024 › Dec › 21 (Sat) @ 10:34 UTC

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They fell out of a folder recently as I was decluttering a filing cabinet. And, boy, did these old photographs take me back.

DAN HODGES: Kemi Badenoch was meant to be the new Maggie... but now some Tories fear she's becoming their Ed Miliband

found 2024 › Dec › 14 (Sat) @ 20:13 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Kemi badenoch has been Leader of the Opposition for six months - but you wouldn't really kniw it, writes DAN HODGES.