The Margaret Thatcher Movie We Don't Need
Submitted on January 9, 2012
By Laura Flanders - January 09, 2012
People can debate the successes and failures of “the Thatcher era” all they like. One thing’s for certain: we don’t need a new one, because the old one’s still here. The consequences of the [policies] Thatcher pioneered and made respectable...can be measured in public costs and private profits on both sides of the Atlantic. More damning, even, is the enduring cultural habit of denial...and the political practice of silence — shutting the problem people up.
