https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21576081-margaret-thatcher-britains-prime-minister-1979-1990-died-april-8th-age
The following article was published by "The Economist" and 'assess her legacy to Britain and the world'. It is clear that the following article contains large amount of bias towards Thatcher and her 'legacies', as there is a use of bias in the headline stating: 'No ordinary politician', this overstatement and bias by the use of language, indicates that the writer sees Thatcher as great authority figure and that the article will be based on positive aspects.
Ideology: For-Thatcherism
Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s first female Prime Minister throughout the years 1979 to 1990. During her terms, Thatcher introduced a set of ‘conservative’ policies that she, herself, followed and then later mandated her policies on the public. As such, these policies were essentially called “Thatcherism”. The Thatcherism era (the 1980s) was a time of great conflict in change; whereby many workers responded by going on strikes, there were poll tax riots and many teenagers did not receive the public education they were entitled to.
Margaret Thatcher believed that there was "no such thing as society" and in the individual pursuit of wealth and this lead to the marginalization and belittling of the unfortunate and therefore ignore their needs. A country can not prosper or function properly if not all citizens are satisfied with how their leader is treating them; instead, citizens should be encouraged and assisted with their basic needs. For this reason, Thatcher's system was nowhere near moral, it was predominantly economic, it somehow became more "evil" than empires of socialism and communism, as those systems are 'based on public ownership of the means of production and centralized planning'. In the 1970s and 1980s, she initiated what became known as the "Thatcher Revolution," a series of social and economic changes that dismantled many aspects of Britain's postwar welfare state, establishing in their place free-market economic policies and deregulated markets and industries.
