Reply #84: Well, it featured a few times in the newspapers here, unless my [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

memory is playing me false.

But I don't think so. Anything to do with that woman that might interest me, leaves an indelible mark in my memory, and I don't think I'd be likely to imagine reading things about her with such certainty.

It doesn't mean I couldn't be wrong, but I'd very surprised, because I don't tend to do that. In my mind, I even have a little black book of Thatcher supporters. Nothing sinister, but such an allegiance speaks volumes to me about their character.

It's a bit like the first answer that comes to your mind in a TV quiz usually being the correct one. Even though you don't know what recesses of memory it's been dredged up from. But in this case, much stronger. It's not the sort of trait that leaves much room for ambiguity, it seems to me.

Of course, it's sad in a way that as the PM, at the time, she's naturally singled out as the person mainly responsible for the ensuing vandalism and chaos, ever since she came to power, when she had so many enablers who still remain devotees.

I actually think Blair's character is much worse, strange as that may sound. She was a grotesque parody of a Little Englander, but Blair is just a cypher for whatever the powerful corporatist wheelers and dealers want him to be. A bizarre, almost spooky kind of phenomenon.