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BBC
Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died "peacefully" at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke while staying at the Ritz hotel in central London.David Cameron called her a "great Briton" and the Queen spoke of her sadness at the death.
Lady Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the first woman to hold the role.
She will not have a state funeral but will be accorded the same status as Princess Diana and the Queen Mother.
The ceremony, with full military honours, will take place at London's St Paul's Cathedral.
The union jack above Number 10 Downing Street has been lowered to half-mast.
The Guardian
News of Margaret Thatcher's death this morning instantly and predictably gave rise to righteous sermons on the evils of speaking ill of her. British Labour MP Tom Watson decreed: "I hope that people on the left of politics respect a family in grief today." Following in the footsteps of Santa Claus, Steve Hynd quickly compiled a list of all the naughty boys and girls "on the left" who dared to express criticisms of the dearly departed Prime Minister, warning that he "will continue to add to this list throughout the day". Former Tory MP Louise Mensch, with no apparent sense of irony, invoked precepts of propriety to announce: "Pygmies of the left so predictably embarrassing yourselves, know this: not a one of your leaders will ever be globally mourned like her."This demand for respectful silence in the wake of a public figure's death is not just misguided but dangerous. That one should not speak ill of the dead is arguably appropriate when a private person dies, but it is wildly inappropriate for the death of a controversial public figure, particularly one who wielded significant influence and political power.
Spiegel Online
Margaret Thatcher was one of the most important figures of the 20th century. She is loathed by many for burying the idea of the cradle-to-grave welfare state and celebrated by others as the mother of the modern-day Great Britain. She died Monday at the age of 87.In October 2010, Margaret Thatcher was invited to return to her former Downing Street office on the occasion of her 85th birthday. David Cameron, the freshly elected Conservative prime minister, had arranged a party on her behalf. Virtually every Tory luminary in the country showed up to fête the country's über-mother figure. But Thatcher had to cancel after coming down with the flu. She spent her final years in seclusion and had to visit the hospital repeatedly. On Monday, she died of stroke-related complications at the age of 87.
Salon
1975 cable from U.S. diplomat gives "first impressions" of rising, free market-loving Conservative powerhouseOne of the early and timely gems to emerge from WikiLeaks’ new collated database of diplomatic cables from the 1970s pertains to Margaret Thatcher as a rising star in British politics. A U.S. diplomat in England relayed to the State Department a number of early impressions of Thatcher in 1975, the year she gained leadership of the (then-opposition) Conservative party.