The Conservative party’s obsession with Margaret Thatcher merch feels less kitsch and more cult

保守党对玛格丽特·撒切尔商品的痴迷似乎更像是一种文化崇拜,而非单纯的低俗风格

The Conservative party’s obsession with Margaret Thatcher merch feels less kitsch and more cult
2025-10-13  719  中等
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The Tory faithful, however, love these Iron Lady paintings to a hair-raising degree. Another of Wadsworth’s fetched £400,000 in 2014. It’s 6ft square, and hangs in Conservative Campaign Headquarters, bearing down on the party with memories of past glories, like a gigantic rebuke. These smaller (let’s call them normal-sized) ones are essentially the same image with Warholian variations – a gold background, a blue one, an iron one; it’s surprising how many colours are quintessentially Thatcherite for those who really, really love her – and the iconography comes to feel much bigger than politics, more like a faith.

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