Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the British Conservative Party. Four years later, she would become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the first female leader of a major Western power.

Fares in Glasgow are more expensive than Edinburgh’s publicly-owned Lothian Buses and on London’s publicly-controlled transport.

Autocratic and fascist regimes consolidate power by reducing complex socio-political realities into rigid binary oppositions.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher oversaw an SAS ambush that resulted in the deaths of three IRA members in ...

An EastEnders scriptwriter says the famous soap series was created in a private meeting room in BBC Wales' old Broadcasting ...

Margaret Thatcher was the best boss I ever worked for. She was demanding, expecting a little group of us to work on till the ...

Ruairí Brugha, Fianna Fáil’s ‘spokesman on Northern Ireland relations’ argues that EEC membership has fundamentally changed ...

A painter who feels “a strong emotional reaction to colour” has depicted politicians including the Prime Minister as plants. Emily Powell, 34, has synaesthesia, a perceptual phenomenon which causes ...

Escaping the “goldfish bowl” of Welsh rugby is harder than you might imagine. It is just over a week since Warren Gatland ...

Warren Gatland has apportioned some of the blame for the decline of Welsh rugby on Margaret Thatcher after claiming that the ...

Martin Ivens is the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Previously, he was editor of the Sunday Times of London and its ...