For me "it was a pretty good time" implies "it wasn't a perfect time". It's what I'd say about just about anything - relationships, singers, meals, weather. It's the way I see the world. No downgrading involved. If I'd been saying the days before Thatcher were perfect, the stuff Teribus has put up could serve to discredit that claim, but they do not in any way contradict what I did say, which was that it was a perfect time.

Thatcher's years weren't perfect either. My judgement and recollection is that they weren't a pretty good time either, but more of a pretty bad time. In fact most supporters of Thatcher seem to agree with that, while saying that it couldn't be helped, and was necessary as a way of making things better.

So we disagree. That's what happened. People still disagree about Tudor times.

Spouting venom at people we disagree with, even when they might start doing it at us. And that goes double for people like Sen, who never goes