Nearly every family has had an iron lady, a strong, determined woman — usually a mother, grandmother or aunt — who comes to the fore in hard times and saves the family farm, the family business or ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) The first volume ...

Elaine Showalter is a professor emerita of English at Princeton University. When the second volume of Charles Moore’s monumental biography of Margaret Thatcher came out in 2015, she had two ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In the case of Mrs. Thatcher there were subsidiary reasons to favor such a strategy. First, there already existed ...

“Yes, I was daunted, but not because of the admirers or detractors — that was an added attraction because it was part of the interest of the subject — I was simply daunted by the scale of the task,” ...

How’s That Government Shutdown Fight Going, Democrats? For the Anti-Israel Left, the War Can Never End Progressives Have Democrats Right Where They Want Them: Broke A Great Start The Inevitable in ...

He was a potential prime minister until he left high office to care for his wife, who was seriously hurt in a bombing by the Irish Republican Army. By Alan Cowell In “The Siege,” Ben Macintyre gives a ...

A surprisingly large number of men from across the political spectrum indulged sexual fantasies about Margaret Thatcher. Jon ...

The furious family of a former Tory minister accused in a new biography of having had an affair with Margaret Thatcher say the claims are 'complete nonsense'. Allegations about Sir Humphrey Atkins's ...

Iron Lady memorabilia is everywhere at this year’s annual gathering as the Conservatives mark two major Maggie milestones.

The first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, covering her life up to Britain's victory in the Falklands, is out, just weeks after her death. It takes its place among ...