#Margaret Thatcher

#Margaret Thatcher

This isn't just a play for people who have an opinion or strong feeling towards Maggie Thatcher, said Young. It's about class, about lives that collide, people trying to understand, asking questions, coming together and bridging that divide. I also think it's a play about what happens when people feel they don't have a voice, and how dangerous it is when they feel they don't have anything to lose.

"Who here really believes we can win the war through the ballot box? But will anyone here object if, with a ballot paper in this hand and an Armalite in the other, we take power in Ireland?"

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic 's David Frum opens with observations about the ongoing government shutdown, how it could be a strategic mistake for Republicans, and why this political standoff is best understood as a "quasi-election" about the rule of law itself. Then Frum is joined by Lord Charles Moore, the authorized biographer of Margaret Thatcher, to mark the centenary of her birth.

Thatcher's right-to-buy scheme has cost UK taxpayers almost 200bn and contributed significantly to the housing crisis by reducing the stock of affordable housing.

U-turns in politics are viewed negatively because they suggest indecision, yet they can also reflect an adaptation to new information and changing circumstances.