Sanae Takaichi makes history
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A 50-year-old document signed by Margaret Thatcher in which she agreed to run for Conservative Party leadership was found in a U.K. garage and heads to auction next year.
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The Iron Lady at 100: How Margaret Thatcher Remade Britain
Marking Margaret Thatcher’s 100th birthday, this tribute traces the grocer’s daughter from Grantham to Britain’s first female prime minister. It samples defining moments: her 1979 acceptance, promises of hope,
The play, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho, is based on an alternate reality around the introduction of Section 28 – Thatcher’s bill which banned schools from ‘promoting homosexuality’. In his show, the PM gets lost in Soho, meets gay people and becomes a disco diva.
Margaret Thatcher rarely flinched in the face of scrutiny. But one interview, aired on 29 October 1989, proved to be a turning point in her premiership. Conducted by Brian Walden, the former MP turned feared political interviewer, the grilling exposed the ...
A new documentary called Red, Blue, and Green, exploring the environmental legacies of US president Richard Nixon and UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is seeking international copro partners.
She is opposed to same-sex marriage and allowing both members of a married couple to keep their own surname – despite retaining her maiden name after her two marriages to the same man. The Japanese public reading about their new PM in the newspaper (Picture: Reuters) Takaichi is more right-wing on most issues than her predecessors as LDP leader,
As the tributes flood in for Margaret Thatcher, the epoch-defining former British Prime Minister, one narrative remains cast in bronze. In the U.S., in particular, she’s lionized as the Iron Lady who stood with President Ronald Reagan, stared down the ...