The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

Editorial: We were told privatisation would mean great services, savings for the government and an investment boom. It was a lie

Rising prices and recession mean the last thing the government should do is muddle through and leave everything to the market, writes economics editor Larry Elliott

Arthur Scargill was former prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s nemesis

The broadcaster probed whether strike action could "destroy" the rail industry

In this analysis of six national leaders, the grand old man of US politics offers a broad-brush history of international statecraft but ignores the death and destruction that sometimes resulted

Unions condemn measure as potentially against international law as 40,000 staff prepare for first day of industrial action

Other lives: Historian of Yugoslavia and adviser to Paddy Ashdown in Bosnia-Herzegovina

You can thank Margaret Thatcher for the gas supply crunch Australia’s east coast has been plunged into. As UK prime minister, Thatcher led the charge to kick the government out of the economy and allow the market to rule. In Australia, governments took up the idea with enthusiasm through deregulation…

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the war, but many in Argentina feel strongly that the islands should be theirs

Ministers keen to claim UK right to potential deposits before and after 1982 war with Argentina

‘We haven’t conducted a full equalities impact assessment yet’