What did Margaret Thatcher do for women? Nothing. I faced her properly for the first time in the mid-1980s, although I had covered her progresses around the south of England for some years as a reporter for BBC South and subsequently for Newsnight. I had witnessed the baffling charisma of the woman and seen the power she had over an audience. Alan Clarke in his diaries compares her with Eva Perón – his assessment did not seem to me an exaggeration. She fizzed with an almost superhuman energy. She oozed that indefinable something that can only be described as star quality. And, of course, unlike Evita, she was nobody's consort. The power resided in her.
(We invite our users to read the full article published April 8 2013)
What did Margaret Thatcher do for women? Nothing. I faced her properly for the first time in the mid-1980s, although I had covered her progresses around the south of England for some years as a reporter for BBC South and subsequently for Newsnight. I had witnessed the baffling charisma of the woman and seen the power she had over an audience. Alan Clarke in his diaries compares her with Eva Perón – his assessment did not seem to me an exaggeration. She fizzed with an almost superhuman energy. She oozed that indefinable something that can only be described as star quality. And, of course, unlike Evita, she was nobody's consort. The power resided in her.
(We invite our users to read the full article published April 8 2013)
