The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

As she resigns after eight years in the top job, Robbie Smith looks back on a remarkable career — and asks what’s next for the SNP’s ‘nippy sweetie’?

As a war of words ensued between the BJP and opposition over the income tax raids on BBC, allegations flew thick and fast. The Congress accused the Narendra Modi government of going after the BBC when the opposition was demanding a JPC probe into the Adani row, while the BJP…

Lord Deben, a cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, says oil and gas giant is refusing to take ‘any responsibility’ for role it played in accelerating climate change

When a party falls to pieces, look out for the phase in which it starts to blame the world for its own flaws. In a 4,000-word essay in The Daily Telegraph that would have been funnier but no less absurd if it had been written by Lewis Carroll, the 49-day…

Having been grossly misled in the referendum, Britons’ anger is mounting as the reality of our plight becomes clear

Actor who was best known for her starring role in ‘Ice Cold in Alex’ in 1958 has died at the age of 89

Most people probably don’t know who the BBC’s chairman is, or even that the BBC has a chairman. Yet this normally obscure figure has recently hit the headlines. Richard Sharp, BBC chairman since February 2021, is a former banker and a major donor to the Conservative party.

Unlike her latest tribute act, the iron lady was an astute judge of public opinion, and an avoider of political traps, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The United Kingdom is experiencing a wave of strikes on a scale not seen since the 1980s under then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. With double-digit inflation, the spiralling cost-of-living crisis means that those on stagnating and low salaries, especially public sector workers, are struggling to make ends meet. This Wednesday, half…