Robert Evans

If you privatize it, it go faster.

Yeah, that's right.

In a 2023 article for The Gamer, Ben Sledge writes, She later appeared, she being Thatcher, in The Evil Within, a campaign for Warhammer fantasy roleplay.

The name of the campaign itself is a reference to one of Thatcher's speeches, where she infamously said, We have always to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

She was, of course, talking about the striking miners who feared for their livelihoods in the face of countless mine closures under her regime.

The Empress Margarita, also spelled Magrita, is a clear satirical representation of Thatcher ascending to power in 1979, the same year as the British prime minister.

Oh, that's so cool.

It gets better.

Ian McGregor leads an army of orcs against Arca Zargal's dwarfs, who themselves are suffering miners.

If those names aren't recognizable to you, Ian McGregor was responsible for shutting down countless mines under Thatcher's orders.

And Arthur Scargill was the leader of the National Union of Mine Workers during the strikes in 1984 and 1985, who later founded the Socialist Labor Party.

So that's not subtle.

We have to unionize the dwarves.

Yeah.

Yes, all dwarves are unionized, as are the sponsors for this podcast.

Unless they're not, I have really no way of knowing.

And we're back.

So I think that has established politics and political satire was kind of embedded in the foundations of Warhammer from the beginning, right?

Yeah.

But it was also more a thing in fantasy than 40K.