Margaret Baroness Thatcher

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...

Fairly typical of GG 's recent journalism in many different venues are a sizzling analysis of Margaret Thatcher and the nature and effects of Thatcherism published in the Guardian Weekly on 24 April 2009, and...

The new poems at the end of this volume evidence the power and versatility that FA had reached by now. They include poems about death, dreams, erotic feeling, tiny incidents in her own and others'...

Adrian Mole lives in Ashby-de-la-Zouch (a town whose name is seen by people living elsewhere as a joke in itself), and his teenage angst and his self-importance were a joke to readers though not to...

Here public themes become more important, especially in the Thatcher land series. Other poems are concerned with the depiction of character, especially with women and girls, real and imaginary.

Daring to look at my work as a whole,NB said, she discerned a social and political sub-text . . . that a sociologist might call the rise and fall of the welfare state. In...

After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'...

Many of the poems in this volume, written during the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher 's polarizing government, when SPseemed to be constantly angry about politics, are strongly partisan, delivering a clear political message which...

Angel's focus on madness has been explained in several ways. Perhaps it is there because Padel was also working at this time on Whom Gods Destroy, an academic book about madness (which these...

The play was at its outset a retelling of the story of Philoctetes, the Greek hero whom Odysseus abandons on an island but then has to lure back into his service in order to help...

Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL based Queen Elizabeth 's character on Margaret Thatcher (the Thatcher monster). In contrast to this topicality, as critic Anne Varty observes, her Queen...

The Seer was originally commissioned in 2000 for the Highland Theatre Festival. After an offer of 6000 (pounds) or something, it ended on the back burner as result of insufficient funds and its (alleged)...

ST published True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend (in the same year as her overtly political Mr. Bevan 's Dream).

This book of social history, which cites statistics to chart the decline of welfare provision during Margaret Thatcher 's prime ministership, is also full of personal witness: stories from Townsend's own life and the lives...

Among other women on the initial course, Ann Mitchison from the north of England goes from her dream of self-employment selling the mechanical models which her son constructs (eminently saleable, but not at a profit)...