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| Monday, 21 January, 2002, 16:08 GMT THATCHER ANNIVERSARY The Thatcher yearsBBC News Online special report on the 20th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's first election victory. Remembering the Thatcher eraMargaret Thatcher's former press secretary Sir Bernard Ingham pays tribute, as the 20th anniversary of her election approaches. Thatcher's Frankenstein's monsterWe are all paying the price for Margaret Thatcher's vile experiment on our economy, argues Ken Livingstone MP. The Thatcher legacy If a week is a long time in politics, 20 years is an eternity - but Margaret Thatcher's influence remains. Thatcher's children: 20 years on BBC News Online talks to two 20-year-olds about their views on Baroness Thatcher and politics. Thatcherism from A to Z Remember when? A glossary of Thatcher-inspired concepts which changed the UK from 1979 to 1990. Thatcher: Apr�s moi All political lives end in failure, the dictum goes - how has Baroness Thatcher learned to live with losing the Conservative Party leadership? Three terms, two strikes and out Baroness Thatcher's three terms as prime minister saw the boom of share ownership, the introduction of the poll tax but an end to the GLC and flying pickets. Remembering Thatcher - the day she won Following Margaret Thatcher's first general election victory on 3 May 1979 nothing would ever be the same again. How life has changed A selection of 20 of the significant and trivial changes of the two decades since Lady Thatcher came to power. Shaken and stirred Nothing stood in the way of the woman who revamped Britain through ideology and her sheer force of will. Is Thatcherism dead? Gavin Kelly of the Fabian Society argues that claims that new Labour is a continuation of Thatcherism are nonsense. Mixed record of the Iron Lady BBC Political Editor Robin Oakley on the Thatcher years and their legacy for today. | |||||||||||||||||
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