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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Real-world devolution of power is under way ...
This week's creation of a Conservative led coalition with the Liberal Democrats has brought the period associated with Margaret Thatcher after her election in 1979 to an end. The UK will continue to ...
One of Thatcherism's most startling gifts to British society is to have thoroughly politicised it. Little now occurs, in large reaches of public and sometimes private life which does not have ...
Seldom does the emergence of a single individual undeniably change the course of history. It was true of Winston Churchill becoming prime minister in May 1940, of course, but normally one person's ...
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 ...
“YOU turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.” Margaret Thatcher's pugnacious refusal to waver on policy expressed the spirit of Thatcherism—even though her steadfastness was often more ...
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 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 ...
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