Margaret Thatcher Articles

  Anyone following the twists and turns of the current debate on deficits and spending would be well advised to look back at previous examples. What seems of vital and immense importance at the time can pale somewhat with the passage of time. Sometimes this is...

Theresa May’s speech to the Tory conference was a daring raid on the right of the Conservative party. It was not, as many commentators are saying, about making the party nasty – it was about making her leader. She set out her stall as the hard woman who would stand up...

I interviewed Denis Healey as part of the research for my biography of Aneurin Bevan in February 2011. He immediately seized on Bevan’s remark that ‘the right kind of leader for the Labour party is a kind of dessicated calculating-machine’. While Clement Attlee was...

We need to talk to about what happened with Trident this week at Labour party conference. Before we do, it is worth remembering the reccurring horror show that this debate has long been for Labour. The last time Labour was in the wilderness, its unilateral disarmament...