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Thatcher's Legacy Decrypted by Lord Charles Moore

Was Thatcher truly the most successful leader conservatives around the world remember today? What did she miss? Where did she fail? In fact, did she ever fail at all? Finally, which lessons could she teach the Conservative Party in the UK which is crossing one of its gloomiest times in modern histo…

Budget 2025: 'Rachel Reeves Bakes an Economic Pudding With No Theme'

Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Read our Digital / Print Editions Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features SUBSCRIBE TODAY "This pudding has no theme" was a Churchillism that could be applied to budgets as well as desserts. Beca…

Special: Sir Malcolm Rifkind on Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher remains one of the most consequential leaders in modern British history. Rising to power after the "Winter of Discontent," she steered the country through economic turmoil, high inflation, and widespread industrial unrest. Her bold embrace of free-market principles reshaped Britai…

Nigel Havers, Rosalie Minnitt, Mike Wozniak, Dan Gillespie Sells, Stealing Sheep

Joining Stuart for this week's Loose Ends are actor Nigel Havers, who tells us about his remarkable shepherd's pies and the sex appeal of Mrs Thatcher. Comedy writer and performer Rosalie Minnitt on how dreaming of cows and seeing moonlit owls doesn't bode terribly well. Comedian Mike Wozniak on ho…

What I’ve Learned in Four Decades of Investing

Karma Chameleon topped the charts, Mrs Thatcher won a landslide and Monks’ manager Charles Plowden joined Baillie Gifford. 1983 was a year to remember. Charles reflects on what’s changed and looks at the investment opportunity to come.

Free Thinking - 18th Century

If Mrs Thatcher thought she was living again through Victorian England, we are now living through the eighteenth century. This special edition of Free Thinking explores London as the centre of the world then and now, financial bubbles bursting then and now, and the lust for consumption then and now…

Thatcher in numbers

Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged 87, was Britain’s first female prime minister and one of the most influential political figures of the 20th Century. She was a pioneer of free market economics, helping to spread the ideas around the world. But the Iron lady was a divisive figure with …

Actor Laurence Olivier with Derek Jacobi and Tim Walker

Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier of Brighton, was born in Dorking in 1907. He's best known these days for roles in films ranging from Wuthering Heights to Spartacus to the ageing Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman in The Boys from Brazil. He received twelve Oscar nominations but was in his pomp on stage, pa…

A Global Storm in a Capitalist Teacup? Jeremy Adelman on Why There’s No Exit to the Market

“There’s no exit in capitalism.” — Jeremy Adelman   Is that ongoing quarrel of modern politics, the battle over capitalism, just a storm in a teacup? Economic historian Jeremy Adelman thinks it might be. In The Capitalist Era, Adelman argues that all camps — left and right, Keynesian and Hayekian, …