Buying It!
The great sell-off in The Hundred has changed English cricket forever, and there is no going back now
Margaret Thatcher came to office in 1979 and left power in 1990, and yet her hold over the national imagination of the United Kingdom remains an iron one. This year alone sees a major television series, Brian and Maggie, in which she is played by Dame Harriet Walter, and a new opera, Mrs T, with a libretto by historian and star podcaster Dominic Sandbrook. She has been portrayed on film by Patricia Hodge, Lindsay Duncan, Lesley Ann Down, Meryl Streep, Andrea Riseborough, Anna Massey, Sylvia Syms, Maureen Lipman and Gillian Anderson, and in television satires by Jennifer Saunders and Greta Scacchi. She appears in novels by Alan Hollinghurst and Frederick Forsyth, and songs by Morrissey and Elton John. 'Cultural depictions of Margaret Thatcher' is a standalone Wikipedia page.
Why is that? And why for so long? And why is a column about the sale of The Hundred so interested?
