Margaret Thatcher

Martin Wolf: Britain has for too long settled for managing stagnation and needs a growth strategy

Other western leaders need some of the French president’s bullheadedness

Scottish journalist, who will step down from BBC Newsnight after the next UK election, entertains audience of women at The Gloss gala event

Richard Cockett’s tracing of how the Austrian capital has shaped western politics, economics and culture is essential reading

The south-coast city is forever linked to a notorious IRA bomb, but there’s no trace of anti-Irish sentiment

The Chilean director whose previous films include Jackie, about Jackie Kennedy, and Spencer, about Princess Diana, turns his attention to the dictator who ruled his country for 17 years

What the UK and Norway did with their oil and gas wealth couldn’t have been more different. Both experiences provide valuable lessons for Ireland

Vacations are rarely straightforward for busy leaders but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take them

‘Boomer’ or ‘millennial’ labels mean little here. Home ownership, or lack of it, has split the country

Patrick Freyne: On Scared of the Dark, Danny Dyer has locked eight celebs in a pitch-black bunker. He’s basically the angel of death

In this extract from his new book, Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown, Rory Carroll recounts the moment the bomb went off, the devastation it caused and the prime minister’s immediate reaction

Tories face a wipeout in Wales at the next general election, yet the party was successful there under Thatcher and under Boris Johnson

Former chancellor latterly became a prominent sceptic on the issue of climate change

Rory Carroll’s fascinating, exhaustive account reads like a thriller and details the planning, perpetration and consequences of one of the most sensational event of the Troubles

Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington attack all too readily an industry they present as a confidence trick whereby states and other actors outsource their decision-making

The veteran broadcaster has written a memoir. Here he discusses his boarding school misery, wars in Central America and why Boris Johnson is a chancer

Anxiety over the rise of a propertyless class has been an obsession of property owners since the time of John Locke

Organisation to mark anniversary with celebration for staff, suppliers and supporters

‘Feed the Scousers’ chants are imbued with anti-migrant and anti-Irish sentiment

The composer on sea bream, symbols, spies, Salome and his new Cello Concerto

Keir Starmer hails ‘big turning point’ for Labour as Lib Dems also make comeback

Dublin council chief warns against merger of councils under directly elected mayor

The British prime minister is less likely to be brought down by his private behaviour than by his government’s record in office

If Macron is re-elected, it will be less because of what he is than what he is not: a crypto-fascist

London Letter: Light cast on exit from body in which UK not ‘influential founder member’

An Irishwoman’s Diary

An Irish comedian can’t find the funnies in Boris Johnson

She left the Chinese restaurant for Rada to become one of her generation’s best actors

In his impotent rage Jeffrey Donaldson seems unable to escape grim logic of Powellism

Dubliner who never imagined working in insurance is now heading up Arachas – and he’s on an acquisition hunt

London Letter: Government’s military assistance to Ukraine deflects from its dwindling diplomatic role in relation to the crisis

Jackie Stanley and her late husband, NCAD’s Campbell Bruce, were giants on art scene

PM’s plan involves persuading MPs to postpone a decision on his fate until after May local elections

Decade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro movies

The relationship between Albert Reynolds and John Major was a key factor that led to the IRA ceasefire of August 1994

UK’s newly appointed chief negotiator with EU wants ‘comprehensive solution’

Conservative cites concerns over ‘direction of travel’ of negotiations in letter to Johnson

Diverging from EU rules essential for Britain to prosper, David Frost tells conference

Serious defeat could turn Alberto Fernández into lame-duck leader for rest of his mandate

Ireland has made ambitious pledges, although the rhetoric is failing to meet reality