Margaret Thatcher and an Indonesian Island

David Jardine
Southeast Asia-based writer.

FOR some of the British 1979 was an epoch-making year as it was the year that Margaret Thatcher led the Conservatives to a General Election victory and became Prime Minister.

Recently regular Tempo columnist Julia Suryakusuma extolled Thatcher’s virtues, a point of view I, as a Brit, decidedly do not share. Iron Lady this, Iron Lady that…

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