Tim Walker

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81 days ago

When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny | Tim Walker

found 2025 › Feb › 11 (Tue) @ 12:11 UTC

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The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image

Tim Walker is a writer and broadcaster. When Maggie Met Larry is on Radio 4 at 3…

86 days ago

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

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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…

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