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# Thatcher: Al Jazeera interview with Anthony Barnett
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/thatcher-al-jazeera-interview-with-anthony-barnett/
- Published: 2013-04-11T16:04:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-22T10:06:48.000Z
- Description: A video interview with Anthony Barnett for Al Jazeera. The cult of the leader, North Sea Oil, the sale of weapons to Saddam Hussein and more.
- Author: ourKingdom editors
- Tags: Thatcher's legacy, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 15:51, #appended-excerpt

Anthony writes: After listening to the BBC's mid-day coverage and as I started setting down my own immediate reaction [in a piece for this website ](http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/anthony-barnett/thatcher-and-words-no-one-mentions-north-sea-oil)which unlike many was not written beforehand, Al Jazeera asked me to come down to their London studio. I was interviewed from Doha, and if I am frowning it is partly because the camera was 20 meters away in a large empty studio. It is striking that they asked me about her sale of arms to Saddam Hussein, which strangely has gone unmentioned in the mainstream UK media.

A video interview with Anthony Barnett for *Al Jazeera*. The cult of the leader, North Sea Oil, the sale of weapons to Saddam Hussein and more.