Was Margaret Thatcher as mad as she is made out to be?

Margaret Thatcher was not demented when she was Prime Minister. She was bigoted, cruel, homophobic, ignorant, ill mannered, insensitive, intolerant, ruthless, spiteful, stubborn, stupid, and xenophobic but she was not demented. Attempts to depict her as demented or irrational were, and are, motivated by chauvinism and sexism. read more

Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain in a way few other prime ministers before or since have done. It's hard to remember quite what a mess our country was in in the 1970s. A country that had lost an empire and failed to find a role, as one American statesman observed; "the sick man of Europe" as one notorious German newspaper headline put it. read more

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), the United Kingdom’s first and thus far only female prime minister, served from 1979 until 1990. During her time in office, she reduced the influence of trade unions, privatized certain industries, scaled back public benefits and changed the terms of political debate, much like her friend and ideological ally, U.S. President Ronald Reagan. read more