British Prime Minister Rishi Sunakβs coming to power is a perfect statement of the leader estranged and continentally distant from voters, writesΒ Binoy Kampmark.
Margaret Thatcher
With the death of another βcontroversialβ world leader, what the media should have done was go back to their editorials that threw around terms like βauthoritarianβ and βtyrantβ, and were filled with tales of a legacy of economic destruction and class hatred and support for dictators, and just used a simple find/replace to remove βHugo Chavezβ and insert βMargaret Thatcherβ.
The Iron Lady
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, written by Abi Morgan, starring Meryl Streep
In cinemas now
Film can be a powerful ideological tool. Truth can be manipulated, tyrannies expunged and sympathy conjured for the devil. The Iron Lady, depicting the life and times of former British Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is just such a film.