In this Index on Censorship magazine article from 1988, investigative reporter Duncan Campbell claimed that former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died this week, was “utterly disdainful of press freedom and open government”
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Thatcher: Paradoxes of secrecy
9 Apr 2013
In this Index on Censorship magazine article from 1988, Duncan Campbell claimed that former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died this week, was "utterly disdainful of press freedom and open government"
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