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Simon Petherick

Simon Petherick is a novelist, ghostwriter and journalist based in London and Cornwall

November 2022

  • Outline image of Margaret Thatcher. Illustration: Hulton Archive/Getty/Guardian Design

    The Audio Long Read
    My small, doomed stand against Margaret Thatcher’s war on truth – podcast

    As a civil servant in the 1980s, I had a front row seat as the British government began to lose touch with reality. Since then, things have only got worse. By Simon Petherick

October 2022

  • Maggie web for long read

    The long read
    My small, doomed stand against Thatcher’s war on truth

    The long read: As a civil servant in the 1980s, I had a front row seat as the British government began to lose touch with reality. Since then, things have only got worse