Are we seeing similar symptoms to the last days of that evil woman Thatcher?

The "Home Information Packs" central to the "reform" of conveyancing seem to be in trouble.

The £1,000 per head Identity cards seem to be in trouble.

The government and the courts are at loggerheads over human rights.

A left-winger has announced his intention to stand as next Labour leader.

And a disturbing TV documentary has challenged the entire basis of government "engagement" witht he muslim community, alleging that it plays to (relatively extreme) "political Islamists", wrongly treating them as mainstream, and largely ignoring the up to 80% of British Muslims who are Sufis. Apparently the foreign office is in thrall to a political adviser on Muslim affairs whose religion I do not know but whose name certainly sounds as if he might be Muslim himself.