Margaret Thatcher
- Opinion
- Energy security
I was a BP boss and Thatcher’s energy adviser: It’s time to switch off petrol
This is not a war of our making, but we did create our own crisis. And yet Australia has all it needs to kick its dangerous oil dependency.
- Greg Bourne
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- Explainer
- Sanae Takaichi
Born to be a little wild, but no rebel without a cause: Inside the world of Japan’s first female PM
She plays drums for fun, barely sleeps – and just led her party to a record election win. What challenges does Sanae Takaichi face in Japan’s top job?
- Angus Holland
- Tony Wright’s Column
- World politics
Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted
Donald Trump seems taken by the idea that he might be welcomed into the Commonwealth. Those pushing the idea must have lost their knowledge of history.
- Tony Wright
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.
- Rob Harris
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper