Ringer is quite right on one thing. Thatcher's legacy will indeed live on. It poisons our country today, and it will keep on poisoning it into the foreseeable future.

I think it's a mistake to think of her as evil. She was far less morally corrupt than is customary among top politicians. But she had tunnel vision, and that's a form of blindness. The image of Bodacea attached to her is appropriate enough. - riding forwards with scythe blades on her wheels, cutting down people she didn't even see were there.

In he own words, she was indeed for many of us "the enemy within". Or as JK Rowling might put it "She whose name cannot be spoken".