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

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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…

3 months ago

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

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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

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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.

‘I’ve finally realised I like John Shuttleworth!’ Graham Fellows on 40 years with his organ-plonking alter ego

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He has notched up tours, albums, books and a sitcom. Why is he tortured by feelings of under-achievement? As Fellows hits the road, he pops an aniseed ball and discusses his new song – about an audie…

Steve Coogan sparks fears Margaret Thatcher docudrama will be a woke whitewash as he reveals he cut scene 'because it was too sympathetic'

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Mr Coogan, 59, who plays the former Labour MP turned London Weekend Television host, said that he had 'huge antipathy' for the former PM describing himself as 'very anti-Thatcher'.

‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons

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New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron Lady

In 1972, a nervous Margaret Thatcher went to Laurence Olivier’s London home for a le…

The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain

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Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and arou…

4 months ago

A radical way to teach contested history – podcast

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Helen Pidd visits Lancaster Royal grammar school to see the work of Parallel Histories, an education charity which helps young people make sense of contested history

Parallel Histories is an education…

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