The unforgiven: it is impossible to convey to outsiders or the young why Margaret Thatcher is loathed, to this day, writes Paul Routledge. Her regime began and ended in violence, and during her II years in power she obliterated entire communities

A whole generation has grown up in ignorance of the real Margaret Thatcher: the cruel one, who frightened everybody and made their lives a misery. Not the mythical saint of [...]