Legends star Steve Coogan argues Margaret Thatcher shouldn't be "sanctified" – and reveals how his "devil" while growing up impacted his career

Legends star Steve Coogan argues Margaret Thatcher shouldn't be "sanctified" – and reveals how his "devil" while growing up impacted his career

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.“We’re not the police. We’re not the spooks. There’s no safety net,” Steve Coogan’s Don – a lugubrious Mancunian, who’s himself a former undercover officer – tells a group of dissatisfied, but ambitious, employees of HM Revenue and Customs gathered in his dusty 1990s classroom.In reality we’re at a private school in St Albans, which is shuttered for the spring 2025 half-term, where Coogan and h…