Carol Thatcher slams ‘ridiculous’ TV and film portrayals of her family as she responds to reports The Crown will suggest former PM favoured her son Mark Carol Thatcher blasted fictional portrayals of her relationship with the ex-PM An episode of the Netflix series implies that Thatcher favoured her son Mark I’m A Celebrity winner Carol … Read more
Mind-bending visual test shows how the brain tricks the eye to not ‘see’ inverted facial features in upside down images – but can recognise the error when the images are the right way up Dr. Julie Smith, from London, has gone viral on TikTok with mindblowing trick Introduced the ‘Thatcher Effect’ to stunned social media … Read more
The new series of The Crown will portray the Queen and Margaret Thatcher as ‘twins who are not the same’, its creator has revealed. Peter Morgan said learning the monarch and politician were born just six months apart was ‘a breakthrough’ for him when writing the fourth season of the hit Netflix programme. The drama, … Read more
Vegans are the NEW ‘milk snatchers’: Meat-free campaigners push for dairy-free alternative to the white stuff on school menu… 49 years after Margaret Thatcher stopped benefit for over 7s Vegans and doctors pressuring government to take cow’s milk off school menus They want plant-based alternatives high in calcium to be subsidised instead Evokes Margaret Thatcher’s … Read more
‘Margaret Thatcher was sexist’: Kirsty Wark claims late Prime Minister had a ‘sharp go’ at her after becoming ‘infuriated’ during TV interview Broadcaster Kirsty Wark suggests Margaret Thatcher was sexist after interview Miss Wark said she ‘infuriated’ Mrs Thatcher during a grilling for BBC Scotland The BBC2 Newsnight presenter said that the ex-PM thought she … Read more
Mrs America Rating: Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Rating: Two schools of thought prevail about historical drama on TV. One holds that, while facts can be simplified, the characters must be faithfully portrayed, with gratuitous cameos for the famous: ‘Why, isn’t that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, lunching with Virginia Woolf?’ That is how The Crown … Read more
Margaret Thatcher’s £300,000 statue should still be erected in her home town, say supporters, despite fears that protestors could tear it down. Sixteen months after the controversial statue was approved by councillors in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the plinth on which it will stand still remains empty. Following a decade of rows, the memorial to Baroness Thatcher … Read more