Margaret Thatcher

A reader say the UK's electricity network should be owned by the state (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers’ letters: Time to renationalise UK’s electricity network

Away from politics Baron Sanderson of Bowden was chairman of the Hawico cashmere company

Scotsman Obituaries: Lord Sanderson, former Scottish Minister of State

Lord Mackay of Clashfern.

Former Lord Chancellor Lord James Mackay of Clashfern dies aged 99

Nigel Farage appears to be a fan of Margaret Thatcher's style of economics (Picture: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive)

Why Britain is facing the return of Thatcherism on stilts Martin Roche

Kemi Badenoch during the emergency debate

SNP and Tories unite in call for Keir Starmer no confidence vote

Margaret Thatcher understood the need to take climate change seriously

Why we should have heeded Thatcher's 40-year-old climate warning Ian Johnston

Nabil Shaban in the 2007 production of End Game at the Theatre Workshop in Edinburgh (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Obituary: Nabil Shaban, celebrated disabled actor and radical activist

Margaret Thatcher waves to the crowd during a campaign event ahead of the 1987 general election (Picture: Derek Hudson)

The one lesson the left needs to learn from Thatcher to avoid disaster Joyce McMillan

Margaret Thatcher, pictured with a bronze bust of her by artist Beatrice Murray in 1975, become an MP before the second wave of feminism and without a sisterhood to support her (Picture: Hilaria McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton Archive)

Why Margaret Thatcher was one of the UK's most important feminists Susan Dalgety

Tour tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday September 19 with an exclusive fan pre-sale on Thursday September 18 for John’s mailing list subscribers.

John Kearns announces national 2026 tour with 'Tilting at Windmills'

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Margaret Thatcher and Norman Tebbit waves to the crowds from Conservative Central Office after the Conservatives won the 1987 general election (Picture: Rebecca Naden)

Starmer is sticking to Thatcher's flawed ideology that only helps rich Joyce McMillan

Margaret Thatcher led a reforming government, a reader says (Picture: Bryn Colton/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: A Margaret Thatcher-style government is what's needed today

Lord Norman Tebbit leaves the Ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral in 2013. Picture: Chris Jackson/PA Wire

Former Tory Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit dies aged 94

Chancellor Rachel Reeves crying as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during Prime Minister's Questions

Reeves' tears should make us rethink worst assumptions on politicians Alastair GJ Stewart

Sir Brian Souter (left) and Jack Irvine from the 'Keep the Clause' campaign.

LGBT+ community 'strengthened' by fighting against section 28

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon: 'Bully boy alpha males' are 'upending the world'

Top Scots - in their own words - Billy Connolly

Our Top Scots in their own words - a Burns Night celebration of talent

Harriet Walter in Brian and Maggie

How to watch the real Brian and Maggie interview

Still from Brain and Maggie on Channel 4

Who is in the cast for Brian and Maggie on Channel 4

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Readers' Letters: Labour MPs not prepared to stand up for Scotland

Author Irvine Welsh, pictured at Leith Theatre. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Trainspotting characters will be looking for love in 1980s-set sequel

Andrew Bowie is the new shadow Scotland Secretary

Andrew Bowie on GB Energy, and why Tories can win next election

Conservative Party Chairman Michael Ancram at the Conservative Party Conference in 2000 (Picture: Colin Davey/Getty Images)

Michael Ancram, Scottish Conservative politician

Meghan Gallacher has called for an investigation into Douglas Ross.

Meghan Gallacher's 'decency' call on Douglas Ross probe

Entry to the National Gallery of Scotland is free (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Why should visitors see our Vermeer for free? - readers' letters

Why Thatcher's 'greatest achievement' should make you wary of voting Labour Stewart McDonald

SNP leader John Swinney (left) and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, clashed over austerity in a BBC Debate Night election special (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

They may be imperfect but here is why TV election debates are important

The four letter word which is the key to growing old successfully Susan Dalgety

Market traders will be keeping a very close eye on how equities perform in the wake of July 4's general election outcome.

Conservative or Labour? How markets are likely to react to July 4 outcome

Argentina's president Javier Milei delivers a speech during a ceremony to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Malvinas/Falkland islands, at the Cenotaph to the Fallen of the Malvinas War in Buenos Aires, last month. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Argentine president vows to regain Falkland Islands from UK

Frank Field was a tireless campaigner on social reform (Picture: Isabel Infantes/AFP)

Scotsman Obituaries: Frank Field, Labour Party political maverick

Kyogo Furuhashi in the sunshine at Dens Park in November 2021 - Celtic won 4-2 that afternoon and are unbeaten at the stadium since 1988 (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)

Lifting the lid on Celtic's 'gob-smacking' record v Dundee at Dens Park

Islay House is on the market for £3m. PIC: Knight Frank

Prestigious house on whisky island on market for £3m

Damian Barr and James Ley PIC: Kirsty Anderson

Damian Barr on adapting his memoir Maggie & Me for the stage

Margaret Thatcher. Picture: PA

SNP treats councils worse than Thatcher did, says former Scottish Labour leader

The 1980s will be a decade remembered for many things including bold fashions and big phones. Picture: John Phillips

1980s - the decade that can't be topped and why 1988 marked a turning point

Behind the 1984 miners’ strike, a legacy of pride, solidarity and patriotism Henry McLeish

We are witnessing the death of aspiration among an entire generation Stewart McDonald

The front cover of the book "Spy Catcher" by Peter Wright. Photo: PA Wire

Margaret Thatcher’s losing battle to stop Spycatcher publication

Humza Yousaf and Deputy First Minister Shona Robison are presiding over a government that's tougher on local government than Margaret Thatcher ever was (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

For Scotland's councils, the SNP are worse than Thatcher

The Reckoning reviewed: This is Coogan's Hannibal Lecter

BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is retiring after 47 years.

Breaking ‘Awful’ BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell retires

Reader is unconvinced of Douglas Ross's grasp of economic reality (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Brexit has put Britain in disastrous economic straits

Some of the hundreds of workers employed on the construction of the Cunard liner Queen Mary at John Brown's shipyard, Clydebank, leaving the vessel at lunchtime, circa 1935 (Picture: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Don't blame Gordon Brown for heavy industry woes

The Alba Party have hit out after a billboard poster was rejected by Global. Image: Peter Summers/Getty Images.

Alba Party billboard rejected

Scotland a colony? 'Muscular unionists' want to end right to self-determination Kenny MacAskill

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries