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‘The best screen Thatcher yet?’: the art (and craft) of playing the former PM

Harriet Walter’s acclaimed portrayal is the latest of many screen versions. So how do you create the Thatcher persona?

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Brian and Maggie; Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis; Paradise; Mo – review

Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan star as Margaret Thatcher and her friend turned foe; Idris Elba fronts a harrowing study of street crime; there are riddles aplenty in a new US thriller; and art echoes life in the bittersweet Mo

The Guardian - UK

Trade union boss warns Reeves against trading workers rights for economic growth

Exclusive: FBU general secretary issues a warning to Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer over pay and workers rights following the chancellor’s speech

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Brian and Maggie on Channel 4 review: Thatcher as object of affection? Really?

3/5 Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter are a captivating double-act in this effective period piece, but it plays it a little cosy to the Iron Lady

Evening Standard

Brian and Maggie review – it’s a real worry when Margaret Thatcher seems this admirable

You can tell how corrupt our recent politicians have been by how attractive Harriet Walter’s portrayal of the ex-PM seems alongside Steve Coogan in this drama based on a scorching TV interview

The Guardian - UK

Steve Coogan shines in Brian and Maggie, a love letter to the political interview

4/5 In his latest TV show, writer James Graham turns his attention to the 1989 showdown between journalist Brian Walden and Margaret Thatcher

The Independent UK

How you can watch the real interview that inspired Channel 4's Brian and Maggie

In 1989 Brian Walden interviewed Margaret Thatcher, find out how you can watch the real interview that inspired Channel 4's Brian and Maggie.

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Reeves’s growth plans ‘exactly what economy needs’ say UK business groups – as it happened

Prime minister faced MPs in Commons after chancellor backed runway expansion at Heathrow

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter go head to head as Walden and Thatcher

James Graham’s new drama recreates their famous last interview. Plus: Idris Elba’s urgent campaign to stop knife crime. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Starmer vows to clear ‘regulatory weeds’ ahead of Reeves growth speech

Writing in The Times, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer criticised the ‘morass of regulation that effectively bans billions of pounds’ of investment.

Evening Standard

The true story behind Channel 4 drama Brian and Maggie

The story of the tempestuous clash between Thatcher and former MP Walden precipitated her downfall

Evening Standard

Brian and Maggie: who plays who in the new Margaret Thatcher drama?

The show, which tells the story of a contentious TV interview that ended Thatcher’s career, is out soon

Evening Standard

The interview that shook Thatcher: ‘Brian and Maggie’ revisits a turning point in Britain’s political history

The interview is now seen as the beginning of the end for Thatcher’s premiership

The Independent UK

Pete Wilkinson obituary

Environmental campaigner and first director of Greenpeace UK who was responsible for the 50-year moratorium on mining in Antarctica

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Letter: Jeremy Seabrook obituary

Giles Oakley writes: I was shocked but not surprised to hear the instruction to drop him from the programme

The Guardian - UK

Alternatives to prison are vital for convicts and their families

Abolishing custodial sentences of less than two years would protect some of the country’s most vulnerable children

The Independent UK

‘Thatcher would have hated me’: Harriet Walter on playing Maggie as a ‘360-degree human’

INTERVIEW: The star of new docudrama ‘Brian and Maggie’ sits down with Helen Coffey to talk modern politics, playing ‘horrible’ women, and why the roots of misogyny are set to dictate what we see on screen for a while yet

The Independent UK

What happens if Thames Water goes bankrupt?

The government could take ownership of the water company – along with its £16bn debt pile

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Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves seeks to win over business chiefs in Davos with Thatcherite defence of Budget

Chancellor adopted one of Margaret Thatcher’s famous phrases to argue that ‘there is no alternative’

Evening Standard

‘Mask-like’ Thatcher difficult to portray, says Dame Harriet Walter

The actress plays the former prime minister in Channel 4 drama Brian And Maggie.

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan reveals he asked for one scene to be cut from Thatcher drama

Mancunian actor described himself as ‘very anti-Thatcher’

The Guardian - UK

We Tories have no idea what an effective, modern leader looks like – that’s why we struggle to find one

Given anxiety about Badenoch, now would be a good time to find clarity about what we actually believe, says Henry Hill, deputy editor of ConservativeHome

The Guardian - UK

Lady Oppenheim-Barnes obituary

Conservative MP who dedicated her energies to the rights of the consumer

The Guardian - UK

‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons

New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron Lady

The Conversation

The Trump revolution: where it came from and where it’s going

As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, the world is preparing for the beginning of the second Trump Revolution. Trump’s second term will be very different from his first, when his powers were more limited and restrained. In 2016 he did not win a majority of the popular vote.

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