The year-long miners strike began in March 1984 and marked one of Margaret Thatcher’s fiercest battles of her time as prime minister. She came to power in May 1979, at the end of the infamous Winter of Discontent, where Britain was crippled by a wave of national strikes. The Iron Lady, named because of her … Read more
Police have launched an investigation into suspected criminal damage after a local artist erected a statue of Margaret Thatcher’s severed head on a pike in the former Prime Minister’s home town at the weekend. Welshman Mark Roberts, who uses the pseudonym Markrobla, hoisted his carved plaster version of the Iron Lady on a plinth in … Read more
A statue of Margaret Thatcher’s severed head on a spike has been erected at the site where a £300,000 bronze figure could one day stand in The Iron Lady’s home town. Art teacher Mark Robla, 34, used the cover of darkness to hoist up his carved plaster version of the former Prime Minister in Grantham, … Read more
Every student at Margaret Thatcher’s old Oxford college was ordered to take a course in ‘unconscious bias’ to expose innate ‘racism, homophobia, transphobia and disability discrimination’. Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, principal of Somerville College, instructed students to complete the online class by this Friday, and told them they must ‘achieve a mark of 100 per … Read more
It is 35 years since Margaret Thatcher revealed her dream of a society ‘where owning shares is as common as having a car’. Yet despite dogged attempts by the finance industry to get people investing, little changed for decades. For years, car owners outnumbered those with an investment account by almost four to one. But … Read more
Margaret Tatcher’s £30million bomb-proof former mansion is being rented out for a whopping £64,978 a month. The former Prime Minister’s plush six-bedroom home in Belgravia was put on the market for £30million five years ago, but it didn’t sell. But the home now has tenants who are forking out £779,736 per year, according to international … Read more
The Crown has made its long-awaited return to screens with the Royal Family facing a period of transition plagued by political division and the emerging of a modern icon. Series four sees the Netflix show transition from the 1970s into the 1980s, with stars Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies and Helena Bonham Carter joined by newcomers … Read more