The leaders of Britain’s three main political parties currently support a campaign to rename Big Ben the ‘Elizabeth Tower’ as a tribute to the Queen in her fiftieth year on … Read the rest
Tag: Fiction and Politics
In a footnote in Representative Government, John Stuart Mill described the Tory party as the ‘stupid party’, providing a handy insult for its opponents. Not that such a charge … Read the rest
The Iron Lady is just the latest attempt to present a dramatised version of Margaret Thatcher to contemporary audiences.
In 2009 the BBC broadcast Margaret, a drama which treads … Read the rest
There is little doubt that the Margaret Thatcher bio-pic The Iron Lady, which has just been released, is going to court controversy and the excellent Daily Mash has already … Read the rest
Benjamin Disraeli wrote his 1845 novel Sybil to appeal to the aristocracy to become more politically involved and so heal the breach between what one of his characters famously called … Read the rest