Whether it is compliment or criticism, Margaret Thatcher, the late former prime minister of the UK, deserved everything said about her. Considering the ongoing overheating debate on her legacy, it is ...

The conservative movement called Thatcherism is about two years ahead of the conservative movement called Reaganism. In the late 1970s, that waving of the future from the mother country had American ...

David Cannadine dedicates his biography of Margaret Thatcher: “In memory of Mrs T.” But that Mrs T is not, as one might suppose, Mrs. Thatcher, the longest-serving prime minister of Great Britain in ...

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 ...

Thatcherism sprang from a combination of free-market ideas and family values Margaret Thatcher's policies as prime minister changed many aspects of British life, and were collectively called ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Financial Times news every morning. Margaret Thatcher’s death must have been particularly poignant for Conservative ministers. Their ...

New Year's Day is a somewhat arbitrary anniversary in the political calendar. True, New Year messages are being issued by the respective party leaders reflecting on the previous 12 months and talking ...

Rightly, the world has been celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 9th 1989 the communist government of East Germany announced that its security forces would no ...

No previous British Prime Minister has had an ism named after them. You cannot imagine Churchillism, Macmillanism, or Attleeism, and if such an ism had been conjured up, it would surely not have been ...