"If you can't say anything good about a dead woman just keep your stupid mouth sht and say nothing. "

On which principle people should shut up about Jimmy Savile... And no, that doesn't mean I'm   Identifying the two, but pointing out the problem with that principle.

If we weren't being deluged with adulation for Thatcher it would be sensible to ignore her death, but unfortunately we are being so deluged. There's an attempt to get people to see her as basically a Good Thing, someone to be proud off. It's happened before with the monsters of our history - Bluff King Hal, Good Queen Elizabeth, Oliver Cromwell.   And people want to say not in my name - she wasn't a Good Thing, she was perhaps the worst thing that has happened in political life in a very long time.