“... of judicial review may be an impossible mission: it is believed that a committee was set up by Margaret Thatcher early in her first government to plan its abolition but was wound up when she was warned that it would provoke a constitutional crisis. But post-2010 pressure on public expenditure, and the chance to publicly exorcise some tabloid ...”

“... that the intervention was something best forgotten. Indeed, both Richard Nixon in 1972 and Margaret Thatcher twelve years later succeeded so well in this that they were able to assure Soviet interlocutors that their countries had never been at war with each other.There was plenty of reason to see the intervention as nasty – for starters, lack of ...”

“... of memoirs, Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties, was published in 1987, when Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and their free-market disciples were at their zenith. It ended on a downbeat note: ‘Most of the world is passing through bad times, but … hope itself cannot be abandoned.’ Yet much of the preceding narrative was about ...”

“... and his superb lieutenant, Patsy Pyne (Jamaica), rallied the Commonwealth against a furious Margaret Thatcher and her government on the issue of sanctions against South Africa.It was with low expectations that Sanghera went to the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in his home metropolis of Birmingham.The show starts and … guess what.      I love ...”

“... recklessly and at huge social cost for a quarter of a century, since the free-market reforms of Margaret Thatcher, remained unaddressed, as it still is – with the fleeting exceptions of brief forays during the Labour leaderships of Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn. As the recently elected Green MP for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, put it in her ...”

“... in the person of the formidable, unforgettable Grace Wyndam-Goldie, a kind of pre-incarnation of Margaret Thatcher – thought otherwise. ‘Our boys are dying in the Middle East,’ Grace declared. ‘You will lead with Suez.’ We did. We went back to Vienna twice in November to talk to refugees, two hundred thousand of whom left Hungary before the ...”

“... Wilfred Newton, the accountant who had finished off the Hong Kong MTR and then been asked back by Margaret Thatcher to sort out London Transport. Newton promptly called for his little band of Hong Kong experts. And so Paoletti, after some hard bargaining, came back to England. In the final stage of the MTR he had tried without success to sneak a little ...”

“... gained considerable power, she was about as useful to other women as that other great Nietzschean, Margaret Thatcher. Elisabeth claimed that the sewing machine was responsible for feminism: it made women’s real job of domestic sewing take too little time and so left their minds too free for foolish ideas. Women who spoke of freedom were inclined to ...”

“... Mrs Thatcher, like Hedda Gabler, thinks of herself as her father’s daughter. For a hero, Alderman Roberts may be lacking in style. ‘A cautious, thrifty fellow’ is how Hugo Young describes him and it’s easy to tell he isn’t impressed. But Alfred Roberts was an imposing figure in Grantham and his businesses worked at a time when a great many failed ...”

“... Intellectual hero to Noel Annan, whose political heroine is Margaret Thatcher, should Isaiah Berlin be left to the – ‘unfashionable’ – enthusiasms of Our Age? Or consigned to the plaudits that have broken out for his latest volume from the Spectator to the New Statesman? He himself strikes a more modest note ...”

“... of land from state to private ownership is the biggest of the privatisations that began under Margaret Thatcher and have continued under every administration since, dwarfing in both scope and value the more prominent sales of utilities such as gas, electricity and water, or social housing under the Right to Buy scheme, or nationalised industries such ...”

“... hero-worship in such a manner as to make him a new sort of hero. He also knew how to hate Margaret Thatcher and the royal family, and he sent them up with an intoxicating vaudevillian glee: So I broke into the palace, With a sponge and a rusty spanner. She said: ‘Eh I know you and you cannot sing.’ I said: ‘That’s nothing, you should ...”

“... election of the pro-big business, anti-big government Ronald Reagan in 1980 (and concomitantly, Margaret Thatcher in Britain in 1979). But Hacker and Pierson argue that the real turning point came in 1978, during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. This was the year the lobbyists and other organised groups who were pushing hard to relax the burden of tax ...”

“... asked him to be Shadow Chancellor – and was surprised by his choice of deputy. ‘Let me have Margaret Thatcher,’ he said – for he had noted her drive and energy. Macleod was passionately anti-hanging, pro-abortion and broke finally with Powell over his ‘rivers of blood’ speech (‘Enoch’s gone mad and hates the blacks’). ...”

“... at any rate appear to be, so many more of them than there were. Some may attribute the change to Margaret Thatcher, with her outspoken determination to roll back the encroaching state, her vehement belief in free, competitive markets, her implacable hostility to the trade unions, and her famous remark that ‘there is no such thing as society.’ But as ...”