Thatcher

Eight page NY Times obit hereMaria Magaronis’ remembrance in The Nation seems more to the point:

Her eleven years as prime minister tore Britain apart, dead-ended lives, decimated industries and starved communities, made greed a virtue and indifference a mark of maturity. Her ruthlessness came coated in a lethal emollient: the soothing voice, the honeyed firmness of the nursery.