Margaret Thatcher

Facts about Margaret Thatcher
Here are some facts about the famous British politician Margaret Thatcher...

Timeline of Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was a significant political figure of the 20th century. This Timeline takes you through the major events of her life.

Republican Presidential Hopeful to Meet Thatcher
Fred Thompson, the latest US actor-politician to consider running for the presidency, will meet Margaret Thatcher tomorrow in an apparent effort to enhance his conservative and foreign policy credentials ahead of an expected entry into the race for the Republican nomination.

Friedman, the Economist Who Inspired Thatcher, Dies at 94
Margaret Thatcher last night paid tribute to Milton Friedman, the US economist whose theories inspired her monetarist revolution, who has died at the age of 94.

Thatcher 'threatened to Nuke Argentina'
Margaret Thatcher forced François Mitterrand to give her the codes to disable Argentina's deadly French-made missiles during the Falklands war by threatening to launch a nuclear warhead against Buenos Aires, according to a book.

UK Held Secret Talks to Cede Sovereignty
Margaret Thatcher's government offered to hand over sovereignty of the Falkland islands at a clandestine meeting with a senior Argentinian official less than two years before the invasion of the British territory, it is revealed today.

Yes, Yes, Yes
Whisper it quietly in case she starts waving her handbag in horror: Margaret Thatcher is winning in Europe. More than a decade after her fall from power in Britain, in part because of her stridency on Europe, the vision of "la dame de fer" is finding favour in Brussels.

How the Stasi Spied on Thatcher During Visit to Berlin Wall
Archives reveal that Margaret Thatcher's visit to west Berlin in October 1982, during which she made a stand against communism in front of the Berlin wall, was a security fiasco from start to finish.

Mark Thatcher 'was Planning Texas Move'
Sir Mark Thatcher was planning a move from South Africa to Texas when he was arrested over alleged involvement in a coup plot, a South African prosecutor said today. Margaret Thatcher's son is under house arrest and facing the possibility of 15 years in prison after being accused over an...

Let's blame the parents
Yesterday marked 25 years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, and it struck her supporters - bizarrely unembarrassed as they are - that this was as good a time as any to muse over her many achievements.

Thatcher's exit means that women can be themselves
She smashed the glass ceiling but was a destructive female role model. "Rejoice, rejoice"? Oh yes. The poor, the trade unions and the left are rejoicing as Margaret Thatcher is forcibly retired.

Mrs Thatcher and her theatricals
While the prime minister between 1979 and 1990 liked to invite identification with a previous war leader, the truth is that the one unarguable connection between Thatcher and Churchill lies not in British politics but in theatre. It was the election of Margaret Thatcher which led Caryl Churchill...