1980s Quote by Nicola Lagioia

Money's Too Tight to Mention' was about as big an anti-Thatcherite message as you can get in pop music. There was a vast swath…

— Mick Hucknall

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped…

— Martin Parr

I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was…

— David Lammy

By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.

— Craig Brown

“We are all Thatcherites now”

— Peter Mandelson

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

— Martin Parr

“Thirty years ago [written 2009], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological enemy without,…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

— Julian Critchley

I did one of the first interviews with Mrs Thatcher. I think, from memory, she came across then as a sort of wishy-washy European.

— Angela Rippon

When I was at Oxford, I was a Thatcher child; I was fascinated by politics and I spent three years being obnoxious in the…

— Dido Harding

“Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen…

— Morrisey

I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher…

— Gary Kemp