Edward Pearce claims that Encounter 's editors reassigned him from political writing to theatre criticism after he repeatedly used his Encounter column to criticise the Thatcher government .
Edward Pearce is a regular contributor to the magazine in the 1980s .
Edward Pearce , a regular contributor to the magazine in the 1980s , claims that Encounter 's editors reassigned him from political writing to theatre criticism after he repeatedly used his Encounter column to criticise the Thatcher government .