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THE secrecy around the McCrone Report formed part of a “conspiracy” to keep the public from knowing the extent of the oil riches in the North…

For those of a certain maturity, the Nineties offered mixed messages. The overthrow of Margaret Thatcher, the ERM debacle and the humiliation by elements in his own party of John Major were all associated with enduring economic misery. The arrival in 1997 of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the independence…

Rumbustious Downing Street chief press secretary who was central to the style and success of the Thatcher revolution

He inspired in his Downing Street staff loyalty bordering on devotion.

His death was announced in a statement from his family

Sir Bernard’s death was announced in a statement from his family

Sir Bernard served as Mrs Thatcher's chief press secretary from 1979 to 1990, and was knighted in her resignation honour

Letters: Responses to Polly Toynbee’s piece on intergenerational inequality from Nick Moss, Marilyn Sandy, Peter Riddle and Tom Cannon

Two years ago, Snow left Channel 4 News, after anchoring the show for more than three decades. Now he has written a memoir. He discusses boarding school misery, family connections and why Boris Johnson is a chancer

When I was a kid in the 1980s, you could casually lose 40 minutes waiting for a bus. Now, after 13 years of Conservative rule, public transport is on its knees again

Annie Brown says on the global stage Sturgeon ­represented the possibilities beyond a world contaminated by the sexist strongmen of populism.