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Brexit cost the UK the only good thing Margaret Thatcher ever did

Now that the UK has been taken out of trade zone, we are left only with the damage she wreaked on the British polity

The Guardian - UK

Celebrities reveal their political allegiances, 1991

Ben Elton and Lenny Henry were backing Neil Kinnock; Bob Monkhouse and Steve Davis supported John Major

The Guardian - UK

Here’s a tip for Europe’s crisis-beset leaders: ask ‘What would Jacques Delors do?’

Faced with war and the threat of Trump, Ursula von der Leyen and others should study the legacy of modern Europe’s architect, says Paul Taylor of the Friends of Europe thinktank

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Thatcher aprons and Starmer flip-flops: Why is political merch so embarrassing?

It’s not just the election we ought to be afraid of this year… but all the merchandise that’ll come alongside it. Wherever you fall on the political spectrum, can we at least all agree that the tat endorsed by our leaders is confusing, painful and almost pathologically uncool, asks Roisin…

The Independent UK

After 14 years of Tory misrule, voters will crave a fresh start. That may be a blessing for Starmer – or a curse

British politics has been drained of all credibility. The Labour leader could turn low expectations to his advantage – for a time, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak's reputation for being tetchy has been seen in previous prime ministers – and it doesn't end well

There are few more high-profile and pressurised jobs than leading a country. So it’s perhaps not surprising that the pressure appears to be getting to British prime minister Rishi Sunak.

The Conversation

Brexit’s pint-sized ‘benefits’ are a measure of its failure

Wine in imperial measures, we are told, is ‘what leaving was all about’, while the UK struggles outside the single market

The Guardian - UK

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Spycatcher scandal: newly released documents from the Thatcher era reveal the changing nature of government secrecy

I grew up in Tasmania in the 1980s. The capital city, Hobart, had a bit of a “living at the edge of the world” feeling in those days. It seemed about as far away from anywhere as you could get. So, I remember the thrill when the first hints of…

The Conversation

Man and woman charged over 'arson attack' at London MP Mike Freer's North Finchley office

Paul Harwood, 42, and Zara Kasory, 32, were also charged in relation to a blaze at a restaurant

Evening Standard

Heading isolated and paranoid into the night, these are the voters our politicians created

So many citizens are angry and cynical, like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle. I wish our leaders would ask themselves why, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

‘The trees are trying to tell us things’: the ecologist championing Britain’s ancient forests

Ted Green, a conservation adviser to the crown estate at Windsor, has a provocative take on our ‘living heritage’

The Guardian - UK

The Channel tunnel should have made the UK truly European, but didn’t. We must get back on track

As the 30th anniversary approaches, it’s worth remembering the hopes that even Margaret Thatcher shared, says transport specialist Christian Wolmar

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Thatcher privately scolded David Owen as MI5 spy scandal grew

Archives reveal confidential letters exchanged by the prime minister and SDP leader that shed light on a Kremlin espionage row

The Guardian - UK

‘What I want is a federalising Europe’: remembering Jacques Delors, a true EU champion

The Guardian’s former European editor looks back on the achievements of the great French statesman, who has died aged 98

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Labour's New Year's resolution 'should be no more U-turns', says SNP

The SNP have said that Labour’s New Year's resolution should be “no more U-turns"...

The Guardian - UK

I’ve worked for decades to reveal the truth about the ‘Wilson plot’. But the cover-up continues

Files about alleged Soviet infiltration in MI5 and a plot centred on the former Labour PM are still missing, says author and former Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher ‘utterly shattered’ by MI5 revelations in Spycatcher, files reveal

National Archives papers show prime minister tried in vain to avoid inquiry over Peter Wright’s memoirs

The Guardian - UK

Kerry Packer was proposed as mediator in Thatcher’s fight to stop Spycatcher memoir

Counsel for ex-MI5 officer Peter Wright suggested role for Australian media tycoon but idea was swiftly rejected

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The Independent UK

Behind Margaret Thatcher’s losing battle to stop Spycatcher publication

‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in the book. The consequences of publication would be enormous,’ the then PM wrote in a handwritten note

The Guardian - UK

Jacques Delors obituary

Champion of the European Union’s single market and currency whose vision of a centralised, federalist bloc found less favour

WEKU

Jacques Delors, architect of the modern EU and 'Mr. Europe,' dies at 98

A Paris bank messenger's son, Delors became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union.

International Business Times

From Community To Union: Jacques Delors, Champion Of Europe

For both fans and foes of the European project, Jacques Delors was Brussels' driving force during the EU's greatest period of integration, the creation of the single market and the euro.

Evening Standard

Big-budget Margaret Thatcher TV biopic 'in development by makers of Poldark'

Gillian Anderson and Meryl Streep have both played the Iron Lady in the past

Evening Standard

Police investigation launched after Margaret Thatcher's old HQ hit by suspected arson attack

The building currently serves as the constituency office of Tory MP Mike Freer

The Guardian - UK

‘Sliding door’: Man who questioned Thatcher as boy says it changed his life’s path

Ernest Owusu says encounter with Iron Lady on TV in 1980 gave him confidence to ascend class ladder

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