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Hell is other tourists in Antarctica

4 October 2025 9:00 am

If you’ve longed to see every penguin species in the world, think about the company you’ll be keeping, warns Jamie Lafferty

The meeting of Thatcher and Gorbachev in 1984 initiated the process that brought freedom to millions in Eastern Europe

Margaret Thatcher’s most surprising virtue: imagination

17 October 2015 8:00 am

Margaret Thatcher’s second administration saw bitter divisions at home, but abroad the breakthrough in Anglo-Soviet relations really did change history, says Philip Hensher