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Thatcher Special
Interview: Michael Heseltine
To his enemies he is an assassin, but he still denies ever intending to wield the knife. Michael Heseltine reflects on Europe, economics, and how he really got on with Thatcher.
The warrior woman
Three decades on, David Marquand examines the social and economic consequences of the Thatcher revolution
When blue turned red
The "new" in New Labour was skin-deep: it marked the party's capitulation to Thatcher, writes Martin Jacques
Oona on Maggie
"Maggie was the reason I wanted to be prime minister: I wanted to undo all the misery and damage she had caused", writes Oona King. Also in our Thatcher issue, read David Marquand's verdict on the warrior woman - and on newstatesman.com see Thatcher in pictures.
''We know each other well''
Peter Wilby on punts, pints, "Peston" and Premier League cricket
The stalking horse
Sir Anthony Meyer’s son Ashley remembers his father’s doomed bid to challenge Margaret Thatcher for the Tory leadership in November 1989
The unforgiven
It is impossible to convey to outsiders or the young why Margaret Thatcher is loathed, to this day, writes Paul Routledge. Her regime began and ended in violence, and during her 11 years in power she obliterated entire communities
The view from the Press Gallery
The nervous opposition leader gained confidence - and, as prime minister, turned into a deep-voiced Hammer Horror figure
I was a teenage Tory boy
Harry Mount was seven when Maggie Thatcher came to power. He remains an ardent admirer today - with the odd reservation
''That Bloody Woman''
Margaret Thatcher thought she understood Scotland... but no prime minister was ever so hated there. Her legacy was to destroy her party and threaten the Union she loved
Mrs T’s rogues’ gallery
Sholto Byrnes recalls the allies and hangers-on who prospered under Thatcher
Where were you when you heard she was going?
The great and good remember the moment that they heard Thatcher's reign was over
Au revoir, never goodbye
The values Thatcherism embodied will never go away, argues Dominic Sandbrook, precisely because they are part of mainstream Tory tradition
The making of Maggie
As the world awaits Charles Moore's authorised biography, Michael White looks at what so many writers have already made of the Iron Lady's journey from Grantham to Downing Street and her years in power
Thatcher in Pictures
An icon over three decades, newstatesman.com looks back on images of Margaret Thatcher
Green heroes
The top ten
Green villains
The top ten
Bjorn Lomborg
Cloud control
Interview
Omar Bin Laden
What if...
Hugh Gaitskell lived
James Macintyre
Brown at war
Will Self
On brands
Film review
A Serious Man
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