1980s nostalgia
The Ft's coverage of Mrs Thatcher's 80th birthday bash annoyed me.First:
...the guest list certainly had a whiff of 1980s revivalism about it. Among those invited were Rupert Murdoch...
Oh yes, Murdoch. Whatever happened to him?
Then, and this isn't the FT's fault, this absurd Michael Howard birthday greetings:
"What Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime. Her political will and her iron courage saw off threats to our way of life that Britain faced in 1979."
Why the silly reference to Churchill? If you believe Mrs Thatcher's premiership was fantastic, say so, and on its own terms, not by comparision with something 60 years ago. If I was Mrs Thatcher I would have found that irritating.
Finally, a quote from bloody Sinjan Forsley, or however you spell it.
Why? Why?
posted by Matthew @ 10/14/2005 01:39:00 PM
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