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Neoliberalism is dead. So why haven’t Australia’s leaders got the message?

Until centre-left parties can escape the mental prison built by decades of soft neoliberalism, it is what we are likely to get

The Guardian - AU

Warren Gatland blames Margaret Thatcher and teachers’ strikes for Welsh rugby’s decline

Gatland’s second stint in charge of Wales came to an end last week

The Independent UK

How The Face magazine turned style into an art form

4/5 This pulsating show at the National Portrait Gallery explores the photographs that defined what was cool in Britain from 1980 to the present

The Independent UK

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Poorest UK households pay rising share of income on council tax, study finds

Resolution Foundation report says failure to reform has ‘slowly recreated the issues that undid the poll tax’

The Guardian - UK

Weatherwatch: Hadley Centre shows Thatcher understood value of climate science

Thirty-five years after she opened it, climate change centre can claim that for every £1 invested, the UK economy benefits by £33

The Guardian - UK

Transport Secretary urged to name train after Margaret Thatcher

Tory MP Sir Edward Leigh made the demand during Transport Questions in the Commons on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff, a crisis hidden in plain sight

Her right to buy policy enriched the private sector at taxpayers’ expense. Last year, it sparked another gold rush – and looming calamity for local authorities, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

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How Margaret Thatcher devastated Scotland as Tories celebrate her 50-year anniversary

YOU may have seen members of the Conservative Party sharing a lovely graphic to celebrate 50 years since Margaret Thatcher became Tory party leader.

The National (Scotland)

When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny

The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image, says writer and broadcaster Tim Walker

The Guardian - UK

Asil Nadir obituary

Businessman whose meteoric rise in the 1980s at the head of the Polly Peck empire ended in scandal and prosecution

The Guardian - UK

Government ‘must draw out lessons from Thatcher-era coal pit closures’

Tory MP David Simmonds urged the Government to learn ‘some of the lessons that we need to draw out’ of coal pit closures for the ‘just transition’.

Evening Standard

After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain

A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

The Rest is History co-host writing Margaret Thatcher opera

Dominic Sandbrook working with composer Joseph Phibbs on project that will explore Thatcher’s time as PM

The Guardian - UK

‘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

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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 Independent 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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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The Independent 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 National (Scotland)

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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

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