Margaret Thatcher
Seventy years on, Oxford pub pays tribute to Bob Hawke’s legendary skol
Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford between 1953 and 1956. In 1954, he drank a yard of ale.
- by Rob Harris
Latest
Turnbull, Thatcher and Packer: Declassified files reveal tycoon’s brush with notorious Spycatcher case
Previously secret documents show how Australian media giant Kerry Packer was almost brought in to end a simmering legal stoush over a former spy’s revealing book.
- by Shane Wright
Why does our credit rating matter if the planet is too warm?
It won’t really matter how good or bad our credit is if we are going under thanks to climate change.
Opinion
UK politics
Climate wars have not been a feature of British politics. That’s about to change
Labour is widely expected to win next year’s election. But Rishi Sunak is not going to die wondering and is playing the carbon card.
- by George Brandis
Paul O’Grady’s drag act as Lily Savage was unashamedly working class
O’Grady’s act differed from the more matronly Danny La Rue and Dame Edna
Opinion
World markets
Big Bang 2.0: The UK tries to stop the bleeding as London’s crown slips
London’s status as a global financial centre is under threat as the UK continues to feel pain from Brexit and the GFC.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Analysis
UK politics
Liz Truss’ demise ends the revival of Thatcher’s libertarian economics – for now
‘I now expect the language of free markets and libertarianism to be consigned to scrap for quite some time,’ said a lobbyist for the Adam Smith Institute.
- by Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper
How Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing coalition gained control in Italy
The ascent of Giorgia Meloni is remarkable considering her humble background in a country where family ties often trump merit.
- by Crispian Balmer and Keith Weir
Opinion
Vale
A working woman to the end, she endured with a quiet heart
Even as she reigned, politicians debated whether working women were a threat to society. Queen Elizabeth toiled on, a leader among women.
- by Julia Baird
Editorial
UK politics
Challenges for new British PM not to be underestimated
Is Liz Truss capable of righting the listing economic ship of Great Britain?
- The Herald's View
She idolised Thatcher and now Liz Truss is Britain’s next PM
Ask recently if her parents would even vote for her in a general election, Liz Truss replied: “Well, I think my mum will, I’m not sure about my dad.”
- by Rob Harris
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