2016: Rod Stewart is knighted in the Queen’s birthday honours list. 2019: Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is arrested on corruption charges. 2020: Swedish prosecutors close the case on the ...

It’s Margaret Thatcher’s centenary this year. For anyone middle-aged or older it seems impossible – is it really 100 years since she was born, and 35 years since she left office? For Iain ...

It’s amazing to think that you have to be at least 56 years old to have actually voted for (or against) Margaret Thatcher. No one under the age of 35 was even alive when she was prime minister.

There are mass murderers in the world, Pol Pot, Mao Tse-Tung, Stalin. We don't have anybody on the list from America. And I don't think it's the same as committing the kind of genocide they did.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks suggested Elon Musk belongs on a list of history’s greatest mass murderers, including Pol Pot, Mao and Stalin due to DOGE’S cuts to USAID. "So far ...

soon after Conservative Margaret Thatcher was elected as the first female prime minister of Britain. Two firsts, within some two weeks, by two women, politically poles apart! What was called the ...

Mr Sarwar also made clear he would be willing to debate Mr Farage – who he also described as a “Margaret Thatcher tribute act” – “anytime, any place”. He said the Clacton MP did not ...

Jeanette Winterson has reflected on how the BBC “bravely” defied Margaret Thatcher by commissioning an adaptation of her groundbreaking 1985 novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. The author ...

Snapshots of Totalitarianism: In the film “Meeting With Pol Pot,” the director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer ...