During an email exchange with Richard Kelly, Head of Politics at Manchester Grammar School and author of a highly regarded study of how Conservative Party conferences actually work, recalled:… Read the rest
Tag: Margaret Thatcher
Yesterday Lady Gaga tweeted the imminent appearance of the artwork to the cover of her new album – for her fans 6pm could not come fast enough. In a similar … Read the rest
The annual Party Conference season is now well and truly under way. It’s a time when each political party’s enthusiasts – what I call the badge wearers – spend a … Read the rest
In amongst the list of 42 bills proposed by right-wing Conservative MPs this morning, was one to rename the August Bank holiday Margaret Thatcher Day. But why just Mrs … Read the rest
Amongst the acres of coverage of Mrs Thatcher’s life and death over the last week, there were some interesting What Ifs, trying to imagine a Britain without her as Prime … Read the rest
Image from the Margaret Thatcher Foundation
Huge controversy exists over whether Margaret Thatcher deserves to be buried with full military honours, an accolade awarded to her hero Winston Churchill on … Read the rest
This is the twenty-third in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence … Read the rest
For anyone interested in Mrs Thatcher, there are few better sources than the wonderful website of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation. It is a model of what you would want … Read the rest
The Iron Lady has been a great success with cinema audiences. It has also provoked much comment about what it says about Thatcher and Thatcherism and also provoked speculation about … Read the rest
The Iron Lady is a political biopic that isn’t much about politics.
In fact, as Steven Fielding explains, its plot has more in common with the 1990 movie Truly, Madly, … Read the rest