Margaret, Baroness Thatcher

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'...

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...

CAD is a socialist and a feminist. She nevertheless describes herself as less political than most of her relations (except, perforce, during the Margaret Thatcher years), as if her energy had gone into poetry instead...

In December 1978 AF voted Conservative, knowing little about Margaret Thatcher but excited by the idea of a woman becoming Prime Minister for the first time. She later regretted it. In the 1980s she and...

PH 's political opinions were riddled with contradictions. On some issues she was a reactionary, even a racist. Yet she took intensely to heart such incidents of individual or international violence as the shooting of...

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...

In the ten houses which comprised Richmond Avenue Housing (off the Caledonian Road) GA and the other members of the co-op lived as squatters and then as short-life tenants under the Greater London Council

Pinter voted Tory in May 1979 (when Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister) in reaction against trade union intransigence (which had threatened a play he was directing at the National Theatre ), and SDP in June...

Early among these works by Smith was Stalemate (1986), her first Fringe feature, a take off of Thatcherism performed by a company of undergraduate women called Trouble and Strife.

At Inverness High School, as AS recalls, a flourishing and creative environment allowed her to explore writing through poetry and plays. Her first play, Peanuts (Unsalted), a characteristically political piece concerning Margaret, Baroness Thatcher Thatcherism and...

ML served as Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council for these four years, during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher .

According to her later explanation, the dropping of poetry was a direct result of the policies of the Margaret Thatcher era: the result was that plans for a third volume of JK 's work from...

HM collected a volume of nine stories, all published already and dating as far back as 1993, called The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. The title piece, begun years before, was completed when Mantel, in...

SD later observed that during the 1980s, her debut decade, the stage was becoming a harsher environment as the wave of radicalism ebbed and conditions worsened. Margaret Thatcher (who became Prime Minister on 4 May...

The book's epigraph from Shakespeare 's The Tempest (What's past is prologue) provokes the narrator's question, how far back do you want? How far will do?What's past in this book...