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OPINION - Signs of green shoots for our economy? Sadly, I don’t think they exist

For those of a certain maturity, the Nineties offered mixed messages. The overthrow of Margaret Thatcher, the ERM debacle and the humiliation by elements in his own party of John Major were all associated with enduring economic misery. The arrival in 1997 of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the independence…

Evening Standard

Sir Bernard Ingham obituary

Rumbustious Downing Street chief press secretary who was central to the style and success of the Thatcher revolution

The Guardian - UK

Bluff Yorkshireman Sir Bernard delivered precise message of Thatcherism

He inspired in his Downing Street staff loyalty bordering on devotion.

The Independent UK

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Sir Bernard Ingham, press secretary to Margaret Thatcher, dies aged 90

His death was announced in a statement from his family

Wales Online

Bernard Ingham, press secretary to Margaret Thatcher, dies aged 90

Sir Bernard’s death was announced in a statement from his family

Evening Standard

Sir Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary, dies aged 90

Sir Bernard served as Mrs Thatcher's chief press secretary from 1979 to 1990, and was knighted in her resignation honour

Daily Mirror

Please stop blaming baby boomers for the woes of today’s younger generations

Letters: Responses to Polly Toynbee’s piece on intergenerational inequality from Nick Moss, Marilyn Sandy, Peter Riddle and Tom Cannon

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‘I’m a nepo baby’: Jon Snow on class, sanity and Margaret Thatcher

Two years ago, Snow left Channel 4 News, after anchoring the show for more than three decades. Now he has written a memoir. He discusses boarding school misery, family connections and why Boris Johnson is a chancer

The Guardian - UK

Tory MPs don’t take buses – they just destroy them for the rest of us

When I was a kid in the 1980s, you could casually lose 40 minutes waiting for a bus. Now, after 13 years of Conservative rule, public transport is on its knees again

The Guardian - UK

Scotland has lost one of its icons following Nicola Sturgeon's resignation

Annie Brown says on the global stage Sturgeon represented the possibilities beyond a world contaminated by the sexist strongmen of populism.

Daily Record

Nicola Sturgeon, the independence champion doomed to fall short of her dream

The first minister has dominated politics in Scotland for most of the past decade – but she has paid a price

The Independent UK

The rise and resignation of SNP superstar Nicola Sturgeon — from Ayrshire to the apex of power

As she resigns after eight years in the top job, Robbie Smith looks back on a remarkable career — and asks what’s next for the SNP’s ‘nippy sweetie’?

Evening Standard

Holi, Thatcher and ‘insult to Gandhi’: Gaurav Bhatia’s tirade against the BBC

As a war of words ensued between the BJP and opposition over the income tax raids on BBC, allegations flew thick and fast. The Congress accused the Narendra Modi government of going after the BBC when the opposition was demanding a JPC probe into the Adani row, while the BJP…

Newslaundry

Photos Show the Transformation of Great Britain

A new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art displays how the U.K. changed in the 1970s and '80s.

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Evening Standard

Mrs Thatcher portrait saved from the scrapheap sells for hundreds of pounds

A painting of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sold for £1,100 after being rescued from a rubbish tip.

Daily Mirror

Kaye Adams says she's 'less a prisoner of my insecurities' as she gets first tattoo at 60

Loose Women panellist Kaye Adams has opened up on why she decided to get a tattoo dedicated to her mum after turning 60, and how she had a 'wobble' the night before getting the ink

The National (Scotland)

Prince Andrew BBC interview to be made into Netflix film starring Gillian Anderson

GILLIAN Anderson and Rufus Sewell are to star in new drama Scoop, based on the interview the Duke of York gave to BBC’s Newsnight.

The Independent UK

ExxonMobil should ‘own up and pay up’ for heating planet, government’s climate adviser says

Lord Deben, a cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, says oil and gas giant is refusing to take ‘any responsibility’ for role it played in accelerating climate change

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Evening Standard

If the Tories listen to the siren voice of 49-day Liz Truss they will be sunk

When a party falls to pieces, look out for the phase in which it starts to blame the world for its own flaws. In a 4,000-word essay in The Daily Telegraph that would have been funnier but no less absurd if it had been written by Lewis Carroll, the 49-day…

The Guardian - UK

It is hard to admit being wrong. But Brexit voters are doing so in droves

Having been grossly misled in the referendum, Britons’ anger is mounting as the reality of our plight becomes clear

The Independent UK

Sylvia Syms: Versatile British film star who turned down Hollywood

Actor who was best known for her starring role in ‘Ice Cold in Alex’ in 1958 has died at the age of 89

The Conversation

The BBC has a long history of failed attempts to rid it of political influence

Most people probably don’t know who the BBC’s chairman is, or even that the BBC has a chairman. Yet this normally obscure figure has recently hit the headlines. Richard Sharp, BBC chairman since February 2021, is a former banker and a major donor to the Conservative party.

The Guardian - UK

Sunak thinks he is following Thatcher’s union-busting playbook. But he has fatally misread it

Unlike her latest tribute act, the iron lady was an astute judge of public opinion, and an avoider of political traps, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

France 24

A new winter of discontent? UK sees mass strike action amid cost-of-living crisis

The United Kingdom is experiencing a wave of strikes on a scale not seen since the 1980s under then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. With double-digit inflation, the spiralling cost-of-living crisis means that those on stagnating and low salaries, especially public sector workers, are struggling to make ends meet. This Wednesday, half…

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak branded 'lightweight Thatcher tribute act' by veteran trade union boss

Former TUC General Secretary John Monks told the Mirror there has been a dislike of trade unions within the Tories ever since Margaret Thatcher succeeded Ted Heath in 1975

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