Every controversial divisive deadly thing that Thatcher did is being placed in soft focus, bathed in a rose-coloured light - a first draft of history that is simply wrong.

There is nothing wrong with loathing Margaret Thatcher or any other person with political power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die.

Tony Blair matched her zeal for neoliberal policies and privatisation with a propensity for war -- in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond -- which Margaret Thatcher can only have envied.

Tony Blair matched his zeal for neoliberal policies and privatisation with a propensity for war -- in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond -- which Margaret Thatcher can only have envied.

Top-secret British government papers confirm that Blair made a pact with Bush in April 2002 to act against Iraq knowing there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction.

If we have learned anything from the crimes committed in Iraq, it is that we must question at all costs the constant assertion that Iran as a sovereign country poses a threat to us.