I've just watched the whole thing and what Raggytash said was exactly what struck me too. He was completely delusional about the 80s, which was a horrible decade for many working class communities. The conversation steered clear of the damaging deregulation of the City which took place on his watch, the government-by-spiv mindset of which helped to leave us the legacy of the crash in 2008 (no thanks either to Blair and Brown, before I get accused of being tribal). There's not much doubt that Thatcher became more and more autocratic as time went on, but his attitude to that sounded more like sour grapes in that he wasn't being allowed to have the influence that his massive, granitic ego demanded.

We needn't dwell on his ridiculous stance on climate change. Thoroughly irresponsible that a man with his influence can spout the kind of ignorance that can only help to threaten the planet by giving succour to vested interests in the fossil fuel industries.

He was often hesitant and was confused over dates. He got the year of Thatcher's premiership wrong and he didn't seem to know the decade in which the UK joined the EEC. We could indulge him in excusing all that as elderly-bloke stuff, but we shouldn't excuse anything from a man who seems determined to carry on having such a baleful influence. I have five of Nigella's books and I like the cut of her jib. We had her pasta with lentils to soak up the booze on New Year's Eve.