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    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      ObituaryBernard Ingham
      Bernard Ingham, No 10 press secretary

      Official spokesman and staunch loyalist of prime minister Margaret Thatcher

    • Sunday, 25 September, 2022
      News in-depthUK politics & policy
      Kwarteng invokes Thatcher but UK faces very different times

      Budget cuts to income tax are where similarities with former PM’s policies and Reaganomics end

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Handbagged — comedy about the Queen and Thatcher has new layer of poignancy

      Moira Buffini’s strikingly current play, plus: ‘The Cherry Orchard’ gets a sci-fi makeover; Richard Eyre’s debut falls flat

    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Geoffrey Owen
      Heirs to Thatcher ignore her lead on industrial policy

      Conservative leadership rivals should not indulge in the ‘pseudo-patriotic hysteria’ over takeovers

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Thatcher looms over Tory race and splits voters in north-east of England

      Invocation of former PM provokes complicated emotions in region that suffered pit closures but welcomed Nissan

    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Windfall taxes on energy companies are a bad idea

      One-off sugar hits cannot solve looming revenue challenges

    • Saturday, 18 September, 2021
      Television
      Big budget streaming services expected to dominate Emmys

      Apple has its first bona fide hit in ‘Ted Lasso’ with 20 nominations

    • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
      Sebastian Payne
      Thatcher’s legacy put in reverse by new plans for buses

      Strategy brings an end to the unregulated free-for-all that saw services disappear and prices leap

    • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
      Jemima Kelly
      How hate became a driving force in elections

      The ad-hominem political attack designed to stir up anger or fear has become commonplace

    • Sunday, 9 August, 2020
      Gavin Kelly
      The UK should not weaken safety nets mid-storm

      As more workers are laid-off this autumn, the grim reality of meagre support will become clear

    • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
      Philip Stephens
      Sterling’s faded illusion of sovereignty

      The pound has been a ball-and-chain on successive UK governments

    • Thursday, 9 April, 2020
      Sebastian Payne
      The coronavirus volunteer army is a welcome sign of charity

      Selfish acts like stockpiling are outweighed by myriad kindnesses

    • Thursday, 30 January, 2020
      Brexit countdown
      Brexit: will Boris Johnson reverse Thatcherism?

      After promising to revive ‘left behind’ areas, the prime minister is questioning the Tory party’s economic orthodoxy

    • Friday, 25 October, 2019
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Margaret Thatcher biography by Charles Moore — the end game

      The final volume of the former premier’s life story showcases the author’s skills

    • Thursday, 24 October, 2019
      Philip Stephens
      Thatcher’s fear of an overmighty Germany lives on in Brexit

      Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, the power balance in the EU is being upended again

    • Friday, 27 September, 2019
      ReviewHistory books
      Who Dares Wins by Dominic Sandbrook — masterful and mammoth

      A rich account of modern Britain that begins and ends with a bang

    • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
      Conservative Party UK
      Boris Johnson faces challenge of overcoming Tory favourites’ curse

      Frontrunner in Conservative leadership race has to reckon with half a century of upsets

    • Thursday, 18 April, 2019
      Martin Wolf
      Britain is once again the sick man of Europe

      If treachery becomes part of the debate, there can only be total victory or total defeat

    • Wednesday, 20 February, 2019
      John Gapper
      Brexit betrays Margaret Thatcher’s carmaking legacy

      Honda’s closure of its UK plant is part of a slow-motion tragedy for the industry

    • Saturday, 26 January, 2019
      Viv Groskop
      ‘X-Files’ lovers need to grow up and embrace Scully as Thatcher

      Casting Gillian Anderson as the Iron Lady is a wonderfully imaginative choice

    • Tuesday, 25 September, 2018
      David Allen Green
      Why Thatcher’s Bruges speech was not a first step towards Brexit

      Today’s Tory Leavers misread their heroine’s intentions

    • Thursday, 20 September, 2018
      FT MagazineSimon Kuper
      Why we need more politicians like Frank Field

      ‘Because he thinks outside party discipline, he arrives at unconventional conclusions’

    • Friday, 31 August, 2018
      David Willetts
      How Thatcher’s Bruges speech put Britain on the road to Brexit

      She believed that the vision of a ‘social Europe’ was a bridge too far

    • Wednesday, 15 August, 2018
      The FT ViewProperty sector
      A missed chance to tackle Britain’s housing crisis

      Government proposals fall far short of fundamental changes pledged

    • Monday, 23 July, 2018
      FT SeriesNational Archives: 1993
      Secret services found ‘1,400 subversives’ in UK civil service in 1985

      Thatcher ‘somewhat disquieted’ on learning that a few troublemakers held senior roles

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