Labour’s search for a doctrine
The party is craving intellectual definition of the kind that Margaret Thatcher enjoyed
ByMargaret Thatcher
The problem with Labour’s U-turns
Rather than demonstrating flexibility they have too often reflected incoherence
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Is Wes Streeting changing constituency?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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Thatcher’s alleged affairs: prurience and the prime minister
A new book alleges the Iron Lady had extramarital affairs, but the allegations are flimsy at best
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Thatcher-land
The market town of Grantham gave us Margaret Thatcher. One hundred years after her birth, what is left there of…
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What did Mrs Thatcher do to us?
Less a prime minister than a monarch, the Tory leader’s real legacy was stasis
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The Tory conference vibe: sad, empty and haunted by Margaret Thatcher
Attendees are free to worship at the Thatcher cargo-cult
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The Tories’ collapse has hurt Labour
In Reform, Keir Starmer faces an opponent without a record
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The paranoid politics of Nigel Farage
Reform’s vision of a Britain wracked by migrant criminals is an expedient mirage.
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Why can’t we give our prime ministers a break?
Whether mocked for a staged snap or forced to return home, PMs rarely enjoy a holiday.
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The special relationship that wasn’t
British prime ministers keep putting faith in Washington, and it keeps letting them down.
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Mrs Thatcher’s bastards
In her centenary year, Maggie’s political and intellectual heirs still yearn for the smack of firm leadership.
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What does Adam Curtis know?
In his latest series, the documentarian collages an Eighties revolution framed by Margaret Thatcher and Stephen Hawking.
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Arthur Scargill’s crumbling Camelot
Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher defeated Britain’s miners. Now their union is dissolving – and their former leader is in…
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The riddle of Margaret Thatcher
James Graham’s Brian and Maggie, starring Harriet Walter as the prime minister, is shrewd on the class dynamics that made…
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Why Rachel Reeves is channelling Thatcher
The Chancellor aims to argue that her tough economic medicine has worked.
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Badenoch’s Thatcher-like qualities will inspire both admiration and horror
Is the new Conservative leader “fresh”, or are we back in 1975? Plus: more drama at the Observer and a…
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The Thatcher delusion
The Labour Party have swallowed the Iron Lady myth. Rachel Reeves must abandon it for good.
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A new history of the Brighton bomb attack
This podcast series about the most brazen attack on British politics since the Gunpowder Plot is not a comfortable listen.
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Stuart Weir: The editor who shaped a country
In 1988, the New Statesman’s campaigning leader devised Charter 88 – a call to arms that radically transformed Britain’s political…
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