She had little time for culture " and once hailed Andrew Lloyd Webber as a great British export. But Thatcher dominated playwrights' imaginations, along with so much elseMargaret Thatcher may not have cared passionately about the arts, but she left her emphatic mark upon them. Under her watch from 1979 to 1990 we saw a shift away from public subsidy to corporate sponsorship, a transformation of the Arts Council from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AM on April 8, 2013