A sympathetic film portrayal of Britain’s most divisive modern prime minister fits a broader mood of reappraisal of her years in power, David Hayes, deputy editor of openDemocracy, writes at Inside Story.
Margaret Thatcher
Guy Rundle: Janet Albrechtsen on Margaret Thatcher and The Iron Lady
This week, Planet Janet is angry at the new Margaret Thatcher’s film The Iron Lady in which Meryl Streep plays the Tory supremo in her prime. Planet thinks it’s a lefty trick.
Media briefs: News.com.au’s Struggle St struggles …. Leveson latest … reporting armageddon …
News.com.au’s struggle street struggles … gay marriage and knowing your history …Front Page of the Day …Leveson inquiry: subterfuge can be in public interest, says Guardian reporter …
Guy Rundle: Rundle: UK riots were a genuine community event
It’s clear, from the people who are being charged, that rioters came from every social dimension of the areas where things kicked off. If it was hoodies that dominated the TV images, it was “good kids” who were getting into it as well, and quite spontaneously it would appear
Denniss: my tactics for debating Monckton
Only the media can explain why they have given so much attention to extreme and ill-informed views about climate change and choose not to give a similar platform to a range of other conspiracy theorists, writes Dr Richard Denniss.
Gillard’s credibility going from bad to worse
Five months on, the Prime Minister still can’t answer voters’ complaints that she lied to them on a carbon price.
Political snippets: Gutsy Gillard gets a 10
Why the delay in disqualifying Sky News from the tender process to provide Australia’s government financed international television service?
Guy Rundle: Fantasies of multiculturalism, ordinariness and Ozstalgie
The one thing the Australian public will never be presented with is the real choice — do you want genuine community control over immigration policy, levels and source (a process that would generate an answer liked by neither left nor right)?
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Dr Who‘s secret left-wing plot to bring down Thatcher
Former Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy has revealed that the show’s writers included anti-Margaret Thatcher propaganda into the scripts in the ’80s, with a former script editor confirming that he was, in fact, trying to overthrow the government.
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New Margaret Thatcher files released
Fascinating new files have been released from Margaret Thatcher’s first year as British PM, containing revelations ranging from a debate with Jimmy Carter over the Iranian hostage crisis to the Iron Lady’s 28-egg a week diet. Read them here.
Thatcher is dead — the cat, not the former British Prime Minister
“Thatcher has died”: This text message sent by Canadian Transport Minister John Baird to a person at a gala dinner informing them that his beloved cat, named after the Iron Lady, had died, sent MPs into a panic.
REVEALED: Thatcher feared the fall of the Wall
Documents smuggled out of the Kremlin have revealed details of a secret meeting between Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989, where the Iron Lady stated plainly that Britain did not want Germany to be reunited.
How Stalin and Mao still exert influence
Chairman Mao and Stalin were both aggressive dictators who murdered their own citizens. So why do they continue to be lauded in their respective countries? It’s time for China and Russia to face up to their pasts, writes George Walden.
Bolt: Gillard will soon be the Aussie Margaret Thatcher
Julia Gillard, once a leader of the Socialist Forum, is now butting heads with the unions — and that’s exactly how she wants it, says Andrew Bolt.
The end of the banks, and Britain
The British financial services sector has now collapsed and the country could soon go with it. It’s finished, says John Lanchester.
Kerin: What would Maggie Thatcher do?
Labor’s economic management will leave Australia in need of a Thatcher to clean up the mess, says Paul Kerin.
What Thatcher could teach Obama
Thatcher’s true genius was her relentless focus on making policy in support of a remarkably prosaic goal: to let middle-class folk feel that hard work would be rewarded in a better future for their children.
Thatcher’s legacy lives on
Margaret Thatcher’s former Private Secretary, Lord Charles Powell, believes the Iron Lady’s legacy is still going strong in Britain, and the country is all the better for it.
Germaine Greer tackles Margaret Thatcher
To mark the 30th anniversary of Thatcher’s election Germaine Greer embarks on a signature personality assassination.
Rundle: It’s 1984 in New Labour’s Britain
The UK has developed a culture of relentless, insidious and universalised surveillance, writes Guy Rundle.
Hot Chips! The Truth!
A Crikey expose with George Clooney
Malcolm Turnbull, up close and political
If the Liberal Party goes for Malcolm Turnbull it will be backing someone who is very different to John Howard, Peter Costello, or Brendan Nelson, writes Greg Barns.
How John Howard forgot the fundamentals
There is no one great mass in politics. There are competing interest groups individuals identify themselves with – but individuals are the building blocks. This campaign, John Howard has forgotten that. If he loses, this will be why, writes Christian Kerr.
Rundle: With Howard, the culture wars are over
Rats leaving a sinking ship is one thing - but when the rats in question are also the crew something real weird is going on, writes Guy Rundle.
Dennis Shanahan is the Comical Ali of Australian political journalism
As the polls have gone from bad to worse for the Government, Dennis Shanahan’s role as the Comical Ali of Australian political journalism has become increasingly untenable, writes David MacCormack.
