Posted Thursday morning, December 31, 2020.
Then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher bidding farewell as she boards a U.S. military helicopter after a visit to the United States, March 2, 1981. U.S. Military photo via Wikimedia Commons.
The epitome of a Thatcherite:
It was of course known that Penelope’s mother was Baroness Hardwick, who spoke in the House of Lords on social affairs, having been put there by Margaret Thatcher. In her time, the Baroness had been a feature of the local press in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, where she’d been a stalwart of the Conservative Party in the borough’s politics, thumping tables, championing family values, and telling single mothers and delinquent fathers to shape up or ship out, after having done everything in her powers, it was said, to institute a new housing policy discouraging riffraff from settling in the area.
---from the novel “In the Light of What We Know” by Zia Haider Rahman.
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