Prisoners of Conscience

During the period that she partly longed to kill herself, she worked for the Samaritans , comforting desperate would-be suicides on the phone. She later worked for Prisoners of Conscience , a trust aimed at...

Late in life MW was violently opposed to Thatcher ite conservatism. Her political involvements were idiosyncratic and partisan. Her charity work for Prisoners of Conscience gave her a recurrent desire to strangle the Home Secretary...