Yes, PM Thatcher was a nasty human being. (I would say 'is', but there's the dementia to consider, so who knows.) From the Guardian , after her papers were released under the 30-year rule: The Downing Street files provide shocking evidence that a personal element of racism, not evident in her public statements as prime minister, lay behind her reluctance to agree to a private and informal request from the United Nations high commissioner for refugees for Britain to take in 10,000 refugees who... read more