The real star of the political conference in tribute to Margaret Thatcher last Monday in the City of London was not the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who acted as keynote speaker, nor the leader of British opposition leader Kemi Badenoch, which closed the event. With speeches lacking much intellectual rigor, which would probably have been better delivered by ChatGPT or a high school student, they caused the same astonishment as Van Morrisson at his concerts: three songs and goodbye. It was the conservative Scottish historian, Niall Ferguson (Glasgow, 1964), who captured the audience's attention once Ayuso had already left the stage. The author of such stimulating texts as controversial, such as The British Empire, The triumph of money and The square and the Tower, He is a professor at the Chair of Europe at Stanford University.