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| Date | Type | Value | Author/Source | Title |
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| 06 Dec 11 Mo |  |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Chile: “General Pinochet, 91, dies awaiting trial for murder” (MT “greatly saddened” by his death) |
| 07 Feb 8 Th | |
Minor | Commentary (RAF News) | Cold War: “Freezing temperatures as Cold War Exhibition opens” [MT at RAF Cosford] |
| 96 Sep 22 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Cold War: “Germany? Maggie was absolutely right” (Norman Stone on 1990 Chequers Germany seminar) |
| 05 Nov 3 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cold War: “Thatcher plotted to block German unity, says Kohl” (Kohl memoirs published) |
| 08 Jun 20 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Margaret Thatcher: the early promise" (Matthew Parris) [MT as revealed in Times Archive] |
| 06 Feb 16 Th | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Overlooked back home, Thatcher's legacy seeks haven in the US" (Conservatives rebuild relations with Republicans) |
| 06 Jan 31 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Win centre ground or failure is inevitable, Tories told" (David Cameron Demos speech) |
| 06 Jan 1 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Conservatism: “Blair is fading away to a dubious place in history” (Portillo compares Blair & MT) |
| 06 Jan 2 Mo | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Cameron breaks with Thatcherite past in about-turn over health policy” (drops patient passport) |
| 05 Dec 28 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Exorcise these Tory ghosts” (expunging Thatcherite rhetoric) |
| 06 Oct 2 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “We can never return to the policies of the Thatcher era, says Cameron” (Cameron party conference speech) |
| 12 Feb 6 Mo | |
Major | Moore (Charles) | Conservatism: Margaret Thatcher & Capitalism (2012 Adam Smith Lecture) |
| 06 Jan 6 Fr | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Grandees rally to Thatcher" (direction of policy under David Cameron) |
| 12 Jan 17 Tu |  |
Major | Needham (Duncan) | Economy: "Fentiman Road: Drawing the Conservative fiscal policy threads together in 1978" [study of Conservative economic planning in Opposition] |
| 06 Mar 15 We | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Economy: "How 364 economists got it totally wrong" (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) |
| 06 Mar 13 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "It was bold, it was brutal, but who was proved right in 1981?" (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) |
| 06 May 22 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: “Cameron draws line under Thatcher policies” (‘General Well-Being’ versus GDP) |
| 06 Mar 12 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Economy: "How Maggie beat the experts" (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) |
| 98 Oct 1 Th | |
Minor | Collins (Christopher) | Editorial policy of site: Preface to Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher, 1945-90 on CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1998) |
| 07 Sep 29 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Sun) | Europe: “Be bold and let people decide” (MT message calling for referendum on EU Treaty) |
| 05 Nov 20 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Falklands: “The Sphinx and the curious case of the Iron Lady’s H-bomb” (memoirs of Mitterrand’s psychoanalyst) |
| 06 Feb 8 We | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Foreign policy: "Has the Foreign Office had its day?" (Churchill College seminar) |
| 06 Sep 12 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Foreign policy: “Cameron and Thatcher divided over ‘slavish’ special relationship” (Cameron speech & MT 9/11 statement) |
| 09 Sep 11 Fr | |
Key | Commentary (The Times) | German unification: “Thatcher told Gorbachev Britain did not want German unification” (documents from Gorbachev Archive) [“Britain & Western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany”] |
| 08 Apr 14 Mo | |
Minor | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | Hailsham diary: "How Alec Douglas-Home foiled student kidnappers with beer" (1964 security breach) |
| 08 Apr 15 Tu | |
Minor | Commentary (Daily Mail) | Hailsham diary: "Night the PM was nearly kidnapped by Scottish students" (Alec Douglas-Home talked them out of it) |
| 93 Oct 3 Su | |
Key | Commentary (Scotland on Sunday) | Leadership elections: “Thatcher: The Inside Story” (George Younger’s recollections of 1989-90) |
| 03 Jun 27 Fr | |
Key | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | MT & DT: “Denis - a sound judge of men who chose a great woman” (Bill Deedes tribute) |
| 05 Jun 17 Fr | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT & Reagan: “Old friends united by one man” (MT sees Nancy Reagan) |
| 05 Oct 10 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT at 80: “‘You’re not invited’, Thatcher tells Cameron and Clarke” (80th birthday party) |
| 05 Oct 20 Th | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT at 80: “Thatcher and Gorbachev take a short stroll down memory lane” (meeting in London) |
| 05 Oct 12 We | |
Major | Commentary (Daily Telegraph) | MT at 80: “The mellowing of Margaret Thatcher” (Charles Moore profile) |
| 05 Oct 14 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT at 80: “The ultimate Eighties revival night” (80th birthday party) |
| 08 Mar 8 Sa | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: "Baroness Thatcher expected to leave hospital today" (health scare) |
| 06 Mar 11 Sa | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: "Gratitude and much respect at end of journey to redemption" (death of John Profumo) |
| 06 Aug 29 Tu | |
Trivial | Commentary (BBC) | MT: "Maggie rated best Prime Minister of 20th Century" (by BBC History Magazine ) |
| 06 Jan 29 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: "Maxwell tried to get Thatcher to bail him out" (1990 MT meeting with Robert Maxwell) |
| 05 Nov 26 Sa | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “‘Bush Oysters’ and nature’s call prove route to a nation’s heart” (Carol Thatcher on “I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!”) |
| 05 Dec 8 Th | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Baroness Thatcher ‘comfortable’” (dizzy spell) |
| 06 Jul 31 Mo | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “BBC to ban repeats of Ross versus Cameron” (controversial interview comments on MT) |
| 05 Nov 12 Sa | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Glamour and talent of the lord of the photos” (tribute to Patrick, Lord Lichfield) |
| 07 Sep 14 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Iron Lady on the doorstep as Tories launch a doorstopper” (MT visits Gordon Brown at No.10) |
| 07 Feb 22 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Iron Lady returns, this time in bronze” (MT statue unveiled in House of Commons) |
| 05 Oct 3 Mo | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Lady Thatcher embroiled in US corruption probe” (Tom DeLay) |
| 05 Nov 19 Sa | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Lonely Black looks in vain for friends in need” (US fraud charges) |
| 06 Oct 30 Mo | |
Trivial | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Maggie, the born queen of the desert” (Carol Thatcher has 24 per cent Middle Eastern DNA) |
| 07 Feb 21 We | |
Minor | Archive (Sir George Young) | MT: “Margaret Thatcher statue unveiled” (Sir George Young’s blog entry) |
| 08 Aug 25 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Margaret Thatcher's struggle with dementia revealed in daughter's memoir” [Carol Thatcher book serialised] |
| 08 Jun 7 Sa | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “My fair Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher’s Long Walk to Finchley” [BBC4 drama about MT in the 1950s] |
| 07 Sep 5 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Revealed: Thatcher’s unlikely admirer” (Gordon Brown press conference) |
| 07 Sep 16 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: “Rudy Giuliani mocks Hillary claim to be Iron Lady” (MT role in US presidential election) |
| 07 Nov 18 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: “Saying adieu to their riotous past” (Sarkozy faces a ‘Thatcher moment’) |
| 04 Nov 14 Su | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Slimeballs always hate a strong woman” (Julie Burchill) |
| 07 Sep 26 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Tebbit hits out at Tories and names Brown as Thatcher’s natural heir” (General Election speculation) |
| 05 Dec 9 Fr | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Thatcher leaves hospital, feels ‘fine’” (health scare) |
| 06 Aug 8 Tu | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Thatcher state funeral plan denied” (‘no such plans’) |
| 05 Dec 6 Tu | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Thatcher takes jungle seat with yet another landslide victory” (Carol Thatcher wins “I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!”) |
| 08 Apr 6 Su | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “The real Lady Thatcher” (extract from Ferdinand Mount’s memoirs) |
| 08 Sep 5 Fr | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “This is Alaska’s Margaret Thatcher” [Sarah Palin selected as Republican Vice-Presidential nominee] |
| 07 Sep 16 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: “Tories must learn the lady is for turning to their advantage” (MT visits Gordon Brown at No.10) |
| 07 Oct 28 Su | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “US dismissed Margaret Thatcher as suburban matron who would never win power” (State Department files) |
| 11 Jun 14 Tu | |
Major | Weiss (Antonio) | MT: Antonio Weiss "The Religious Mind of Mrs Thatcher" [study of MT’s personal religion] |
| 91 Mar 14 Th | |
Minor | Newton (Helmut) | MT: Helmut Newton Autobiography (extract) [portrait of MT taken at Anaheim] |
| 07 Sep 12 We | |
Major | Charles Powell | MT: Interview with Charles Powell (MT’s policy on Europe, East & West) |
| 11 Jun 22 We | |
Major | Agar (Jon) | MT: Jon Agar "Thatcher, Scientist" [study of MT’s scientific career & approach to science policy] |
| 08 Mar 9 Su | |
Minor | Commentary (Sunday Times) | MT: Revived Margaret Thatcher leaves hospital (spend night in St. Thomas’s) |
| 05 Nov 4 Fr | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Northern Ireland: “McCartney sisters boycott awards to avoid Thatcher” (Irish Republican protest) |
| 09 Apr 5 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Northern Ireland: “Was Gerry Adams complicit over hunger strikes?” (newly released British documents) |
| 09 Apr 12 Su | |
Major | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Northern Ireland: “Why Adams sticks to his Maze myth” (newly released British documents) |
| 07 Aug 14 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Biffen [John] (1930-2007) [Conservative cabinet minister, 1979-87] |
| 08 Feb 27 We | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Buckley [William F., Jr.] (1925-2008) [leading American conservative] |
| 07 Jan 27 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Channon [Paul] (1935-2007) [Trade & Industry Secretary 1986-89] |
| 07 Jan 8 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Cockfield [Arthur] (1916-2007) [Conservative tax expert & European Commissioner 1985-89] |
| 07 Aug 17 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Deedes [Bill] (1913-2007) [Conservative minister, journalist and Thatcher family friend] |
| 06 Nov 16 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Friedman [Milton] (1912-2006) |
| 07 Sep 21 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Gilmour [Sir Ian] (1926-2007) [prominent Conservative critic of MT] |
| 06 Oct 19 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Harris [Lord Ralph] (1924-2006) |
| 06 Jun 13 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Haughey [Charles] (1925-2006) [former Irish Taoiseach] |
| 05 Jul 17 Su | |
Key | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Heath [Edward] (1916-2005) [Prime Minister 1970-74] |
| 06 Aug 30 We | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Monro [Hector] (1922-2006) [Scottish Conservative stalwart] |
| 06 Nov 22 We | |
Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Peyton [John] (1919-2006) [1975 Conservative leadership candidate] |
| 08 Mar 7 Fr | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Pym [Francis] (1922-2008) [Conservative Foreign Secretary 1982-83] |
| 04 Jun 5 Sa | |
Key | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Reagan [Ronald] (1911-2004) [US President 1981-89] |
| 04 Nov 6 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (ABC News & MSNBC) | Obituary: Reagan [Ronald] (ABC & MSNBC coverage of MT's role at funeral) |
| 05 Oct 11 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Seldon [Arthur] (1916-2005) [free market thinker & IEA co-founder] |
| 03 Jun 26 Th | |
Key | Commentary (Daily Telegraph & BBC) | Obituary: Thatcher [Sir Denis] (1915-2003) |
| 06 Mar 28 Tu | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Weinberger [Caspar] (1917-2006) [long-time US friend & ally of MT] |
| 06 Apr 6 Th | |
Major | Rumsfeld (Donald) | Obituary: Weinberger [Caspar] (Donald Rumsfeld Eulogy) |
| 03 Jan 26 Su | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Younger [George] (1931-2003) [Scottish Secretary 1979-86, Defence Secretary 1986-89] |
| 06 Aug 26 Sa | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Sherman [Sir Alfred] (1919-2006) [key 1970s advisor to MT] |
| 06 Aug 31 Th | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Sherman [Sir Alfred] (appreciation by Bruce Anderson) |
| 06 Aug 28 Mo | |
Major | Commentary (The Times) | South Africa: "Cameron disowns Thatcher's policy on apartheid" (ANC not terrorists) |
| 06 Mar 16 Th | |
Major | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | IEA Seminar (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) [Andrew Alexander, Terry Burns, David Laws, Stephen Nickell, Michael Oliver & Geoffrey Wood] |
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