Margaret Thatcher: Last News

A statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher was egged less than two hours after it was installed in her home town. A protester threw eggs from behind a temporary fence surrounding the memorial, with a cry of “oi” heard after one hit part of the monument.

A new statue of one of Britain's most divisive prime ministers has been lowered into place - despite threats of eggs being chucked at it. The £300,000 statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher is due to be unveiled in her home town of Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Boris Johnson has been slammed after a "desperate" attempt to revive Margaret Thatcher's Right to Buy (RTB) policy, days before the UK council elections.

The Flight Attendant , and it's a good thing that HBO Max is rolling out only the first two episodes on Thursday because your stress levels won't be able to take that much more. “As big as season one is, season two is an even bigger swing,” "I would say it's 10 times the size in scope."She's not kidding.

Location, Location, Location star Kirstie Allsopp knocked heads in a fierce Twitter spat with Nadine Dorries over the privatisation of Channel 4, which airs several of Kirstie's programmes.The pair locked horns after the Culture Secretary wrote an opinion piece addressing the Government’s decision to push ahead with plans to sell off the channel.Nadine, 64, told the British public that it was time for Channel 4 to “fly the nest towards a very exciting future”. In her piece, Nadine wrote that former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who set up Channel 4 in 1982, had ultimately wanted it to be “free from the constraints of the state” and described opposition to the move as “lazy, overwrought and ill-informed rhetoric from the Leftie luvvie lynch mob”.Kirstie, 50, who has been a long-time employee of the broadcaster, took to Twitter to disagree with the minister’s decision in view of her 427,000 followers.Yesterday, Kirstie shared Nadine’s article, writing: “Some of the language directed @nadinedorries has been vile 100%. “It’s also crystal clear she doesn’t understand @Channel4, nor why it matters. “Writing this divisive piece abuses her position and illustrates why she is entirely unsuited for the role at @DCMS (the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport).”In a later tweet about Nadine’ piece for The Mail on Sunday, Kirstie questioned whether it was “really ministerial” to describe those contesting privatisation as a “lynch mob” while “at the same time complaining about having been accused of fascism”.Sharing an article about the US Senate passing an anti-lynching Bill, she added: “This piece might make you think twice about using the term.”Reacting to Nadine’s decision last week, Kirstie penned:

plans to sell Channel 4 don’t “make any business sense” and undermine the channel’s “tremendous economic and cultural achievement”.The Scottish filmmaker criticised the government’s proposals to privatise the publicly owned channel, which he clarified does not cost the taxpayer any money as Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries wrongfully claimed last year, because it’s paid for by ad revenue.Iannucci, known for TV shows including The Thick Of It and I’m Alan Partridge as well as feature films such as The Death Of Stalin (2017), wrote in a The Guardian op-ed that the move has been ill-thought-out as he questioned why a broadcaster that “puts billions into the economy and promotes British culture and values internationally” should be sold off.“It doesn’t make any business sense, and it’s certainly not patriotic,” he wrote. “I regularly get asked by international broadcasters why the UK government has such a destructive agenda against the country’s main television networks.“Dorries tweeted yesterday that ‘government ownership is holding Channel 4 back’, which perhaps explains part of the problem, that she sees the network as some manifestation of the Big State.

Gillian Anderson may have lost her usual composure as she searched for words on stage in Cannes on Friday to express what she felt about being given Variety’s 2022 Icon Award.Taking to the stage at the opening ceremony of French TV festival Canneseries to pick up the award, the star – soon to be seen in Showtime’s “The First Lady,” where she plays Eleanor Roosevelt – accepted Variety’s 2022 Icon Award with a mixture of elation and humility. Sporting an elegant multicoloured leather dress, she’d been greeted when walking to the stage by an enormous, heartfelt roar of applause from the packed main auditorium at Cannes’ legendary Palais des Festivals, also site of the Cannes Festival.  “I Googled what ‘icon’ actually meant to see how I identified with being given this award,” she said hesitantly, beginning her speech.“What I can certainly say is that I have played a lot of iconic women in my very long career. Women who have come through barriers and decades to stand above the rest in dramas and in our hearts,” Anderson said. And she listed just a few:: Dana Scully, Miss Havisham, Margo Channing, Blanche DuBois, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Margaret Thatcher, Eleanor Roosevelt and David Bowie.

Manori Ravindran International EditorFew people can say their comfort zone is in playing strong women, but for Gillian Anderson, it ’s become something of a personal brand.The American-British actor, who was once best-known for her skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully in Fox’s long-running sci-fi hit “The X-Files,” has gone on to play detective Stella Gibson in “The Fall,” notorious British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” and sex therapist Jean Milburn in “Sex Education.” (And you wouldn’t want to cross any of them.)Anderson — who will receive the Variety Icon Award in a ceremony at CannesSeries on April 1 — will next be seen portraying the rarely dramatized Eleanor Roosevelt, opposite Viola Davis’ Michelle Obama and Michelle Pfeiffer’s Betty Ford, in Showtime’s drama “The First Lady.” But portraying no-nonsense women didn’t begin as a conscious choice for Anderson. In 1993, she recognized a “stark difference” between the Dana Scully role and “pretty much everything else on television at the time,” though, at age 24, she wouldn’t have labelled Scully as the feminist icon she’d come to represent.“I don’t think it was as clear-cut in my mind as being, ‘Oh, this is a feminist character,’” she says.

“The Gilded Age” star — who plays the penniless blue-blood Marian Brook — discussed some of the three-time Oscar winner’s most annoying habits a recent late-night appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!“Host Jimmy Kimmel asked the 30-year-old if Streep, 72, irks the young starlet from time to time.“Of course,” Jacobson replied. She also divulged the cute nickname the “Don’t Look Up” star has for her youngest child: “Pickle!”Jacobson recalled a moment when her mom was worried about her.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs the World.  A post shared by BBC Three (@bbcthree)These are the following shady combatants:Baga is a British queen with great comedy chops. She displayed them time and time again throughout her season. Who can forget her uncanny impersonation of the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher? This performance earned her a Snatch Game victory with her bestie and the winner of the season, the Vivienne.

Molly-Mae Hague has defended herself following the backlash she received for suggesting anyone can be a millionaire if they simply work hard enough.

Manori Ravindran International EditorIt doesn’t get more ironic than the hand that’s been dealt the U.K.’s Channel 4.The publicly owned broadcaster set up by then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — and known overseas as the creative incubator of shows like “Derry Girls” and “It’s a Sin” — is facing a potential sale by Boris Johnson’s government at the exact moment it delivers the highest content budget in its 39-year history and eyes a record-breaking £1 billion ($1.3 billion) in revenues for 2021.Ian Katz, chief content officer, tells Variety that £700 million is ear-marked for new shows in 2022 — a cash infusion that will only build on what he brands as an auspicious “purple patch” for the channel.

Javier Bardem is not having it! The actor is defending his role as Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos. In a recent cover story for The Hollywood Reporter, the 52-year-old actor and his costar Nicole Kidman opened up about people’s reaction after they were cast to portray iconic I Love Lucy’s Arnaz and Lucille Ball.The Oscar winner told the publication that playing the Cuban-American star or other characters is the whole point of his job.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticPete Buttigieg is going to be the President of the United States. That is something I believe, and have from virtually the moment I first saw him — though I don’t suspect it’s going to happen for 10 or maybe 20 years.

Olivia Colman had her crowning moment at the 73rd annual Emmy Awards as she picked up her first honor for Netflix’s The Crown on Sunday. Upon receiving her first career Emmy from Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson, Colman, remembered her father who died earlier this year with a brief acceptance speech.

Glasgow caused controversy among its Scottish viewers after praising former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. On yesterday's show, a woman called Mary phoned in as the panel discussed tax and elderly care.She spoke to Jeremy Vine and Owen Jones and said she was very thankful for Margaret Thatcher as, because of her, she was able to buy her flat.

East Ayrshire Council, said that even the best part of four decades on from the Miners’ Strike, the communities still feel the pain that saw New Cumnock reduced to a shell of its former glory.So the Prime Minister's quip to Scottish journalists that ‘thanks to Margaret Thatcher, who closed so many coal mines across the country, we had a big early start and we're now moving rapidly away from coal altogether’, was met with real anger.Cllr McMahon, who was one of many who took part in and was arrested on the picket lines in 1984, said: “The contempt that he has treated the coal mining communities is beyond me.”“I despised Margaret Thatcher and everything she stood for.

Prime Minister said it was “thanks” to Margaret Thatcher the mines were shut and chuckled as he said it during a two-day visit to Scotland. He claimed that the former PM had given the UK an " early star t" in the shift away from fossil fuels by closing pits.

Margaret Thatcher the mines closed and chuckled as he said it. Ex Labour MSP Neil Findlay said: “Boris Johnson finding the plight of the industrial communities that were decimated by Thatcher’s assault amusing tells you everything you need to know about his mentality."Johnson is in Scotland this week to talk up the UK's work on climate change on the eve of Glasgow hosting cop26.At a media briefing, he was asked about setting a timetable for ending oil and gas exploration.He responded: “Look at what we’ve done already.

There has been a casting announcement for the fifth season of The Crown!

A British royal drama seeped in controversy caused shockwaves over in LA on Sunday night... as The Crown won four categories at the Critics’ Choice Awards.