Sublime

But Thatcher was ready when fate intervened. Who else could offer her combination of energy, decisiveness, experience as a housewife, and gift for communicating to become one of the most enduring political leaders of the twentieth century?

All forms of social solidarity were to be dissolved in favour of individualism, private property, personal responsibility, and family values. The ideological assault along these lines that flowed from Thatcher’s rhetoric was relentless.17 ‘Economics are the method’, she said, ‘but the object is to change the soul.’ And change it she did, though in

As Charles Moore told me, ‘she was always thinking, thinking, thinking. “What’s right here? What’s the best? What’s the problem? What’s the solution?” But she didn’t have the philosopher’s sceptical mind or pure intellectualism. She wanted results.’19 It was her strong will, iron morals, and belief in the importance of getting results that steered

Leur heure sonna enfin en 1980, quand Margaret Thatcher et Ronald Reagan unirent leurs forces pour porter le scénario néolibéral sur la scène internationale. Tous deux récemment élus, ils étaient entourés d’adeptes de Mont-Pèlerin : l’équipe de campagne de Reagan incluait plus de vingt membres de la Société, et le premier chancelier de l’Échiquier

A report from one of the investment banks had welcomed the cuts in spending, labelling the new Brazilian leader ‘Tropical Maggie’ in allusion to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, well known for her privatising governments of the 1980s. The comparison was a stretch. The biographies of the two leaders could not have been more