Thirty years ago, in 1987, actor-turned-politician Ronald Reagan was President of the United States, Margaret Thatcher occupied 10 Downing Street having secured a third consecutive victory for her government and the first issue of Exeposé was hot off the student press. Cinema-goers flocked to see Dirty Dancing, and Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael, perhaps better […]
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Thatcher and God: an interview with Eliza Filby
There is no figure in modern British politics quite as divisive as Margaret Thatcher. For the Right, she has been practically beatified, yet to be a left-winger and profess admiration for her is tantamount to blasphemy. The debate surrounding Thatcherism is laced with terms concerning good and evil, from both sides. And, therefore, it is […]
“Diplomacy is not an event, it’s a process” – Alan Johnson MP on the EU
London greets me with the weather that has become near synonymous with the capital; grey trickles tumbling down in front of a yet-greyer sky. It’s a biting January cold, and the disparity between it and the train’s interior makes for a bracing, but welcome, encounter. Having been sat in a metal tube for three hours, […]