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Thatcher kept in hospital after fall

Thatcher kept in hospital after fall

Former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher will be kept in hospital for "several days" as a "precautionary measure" after breaking her arm in a fall at home, her spokesman said today.

A fight to the death

A fight to the death

Jonathan Coe's novels tend to combine comic burlesque with political satire, famously epitomised in What A Carve Up! – a riotous send-up of Thatcher's Britain.

Film: My Beautiful Laundrette (15)

Film: My Beautiful Laundrette (15)

What: A visceral, witty and acutely observed study of racism and homophobia in Thatcher's Britain. The story concerns the apparent rekindling of a gay love affair between two teenage ex-schoolmates: a Pakistani laundrette worker Omar (Gordon Warnecke), and a lad called Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) who has fallen in with a gang of aggressive right-wing extremists.

This is England

This is England

Roland Rat. Cola Cubes. Mrs Thatcher. Space Invaders. A jaunty opening montage speaks of a fuzzy nostalgia.

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