Demise of Thatcher

I’m sorry to say that my most recent post was all too prophetic. Mrs. Thatcher is dead, and her funeral has been arranged. Thankfully, it will not be the ‘State Funeral’ that I expected, but it is not far short (something like Princess Diana’s). I hope it passes peacefully, but I’m not confident that it will. Today has been rightly respectful, but by the time of the funeral, opinion might (as Diana’s death demonstrated) change significantly. Unsightly demonstrations, in the glare of the world’s media would not be good for anyone, and a private funeral, it seems, would almost certainly have been the preference of the Thatcher family. I hope that there is no wringing of hands after a disrupted public ceremony next week. However, I’m not holding my breath.