The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

Queen Elizabeth 'was briefed about UFOs'

The late Queen Elizabeth was briefed about the possible existence of UFOs following the infamous Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980, according to a new documentary.

BANG Premier · Feb 26, 2025

Do Trump and co want a world reclaimed by straight white men? It’s not certain they’ll get it

Trump calls diversity policies ‘immoral’ and Badenoch says they’re ‘poison’. But businesses know multiculturalism is good for the economy, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2025

Too evil! Too smutty! Too Thatcher! When TV stars demand cuts to their scenes

Not all actors are comfortable with baring their behinds … or their souls. From Bridgerton to The Sopranos, some have insisted on moments being axed – although they don’t always get their way

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2025

Weatherwatch: Hadley Centre shows Thatcher understood value of climate science

Thirty-five years after she opened it, climate change centre can claim that for every £1 invested, the UK economy benefits by £33

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2025

Transport Secretary urged to name train after Margaret Thatcher

Tory MP Sir Edward Leigh made the demand during Transport Questions in the Commons on Thursday.

Evening Standard · Feb 13, 2025

Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff, a crisis hidden in plain sight

Her right to buy policy enriched the private sector at taxpayers’ expense. Last year, it sparked another gold rush – and looming calamity for local authorities, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2025

How Margaret Thatcher devastated Scotland as Tories celebrate her 50-year anniversary

YOU may have seen members of the Conservative Party sharing a lovely graphic to celebrate 50 years since Margaret Thatcher became Tory party leader.

The National (Scotland) · Feb 11, 2025

When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny

The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image, says writer and broadcaster Tim Walker

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2025

Asil Nadir obituary

Businessman whose meteoric rise in the 1980s at the head of the Polly Peck empire ended in scandal and prosecution

The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2025

Government ‘must draw out lessons from Thatcher-era coal pit closures’

Tory MP David Simmonds urged the Government to learn ‘some of the lessons that we need to draw out’ of coal pit closures for the ‘just transition’.

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2025