“Time supposedly heals all wounds yet somehow the wounds inflicted on the body politic by Margaret Hilda Thatcher are still raw and after 30 years still suppurating. This may be because the narrative generated by her period in office which swept away all before it and was partly delusional still prevails to this day” - Steve Bell.

“How will the muse of history assess Margaret Thatcher? A unique phenomenon, nominally Conservative but more a believer in self-improvement and personal responsibility as the guiding principles from individual to find their way through life. The state should have a limited role and the market was a better way to resolve the distribution of resources and rewards. Such views led her to being both loved and loathed. Few can deny her achievements. She changed the political weather. – Kenneth Baker.

These are the diametrically views of two commentators, each distinguished in different ways, of the subject of the current exhibition at the Cartoon Museum, Margaret Thatcher. Both are trustees of the museum, showing that there are no biases in the journalism of the cartoon, nor in the museum devoted to it.

The exhibition, Maggie! Maggie! Maggie! which runs until July, marks the 30th anniversary of Mrs Thatcher becoming prime minister, and as the illustration here show, no holds are barred. The Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson calls his profession “voodoo journalism”.

At the Royal Society of Arts in 1949, H M Bateman said, “Is it not high time that some official recognition of the worth of comic drawing was made? A permanent collection of some of the best examples should be got together and housed under one roof, forming a sort of National Gallery of Humorous Art. It is a fine art and a big industry, but it has no central home or headquarters, as every other art and industry on the same scale has, where the best is preserved and made available to the student and the general public.”