Mick Fealty on December 11, 2006, 6:21 pm | Readers 1
No, not another misanthropic serenade for our current Secretary of State. But a reprise from Margaret Thatcher’s final days. I was in a school staff room in Leicestershire where, if I recall correctly, no one would actually believe it when they heard she’d actually gone.
There are some similarities with Blair. But, much as the DUP is said to have studied Trimble’s demise and learned from it, Tony Blair from early on gave the impression of a man who always was prepared to jump rather than wait to be pushed. A blast from the past, courtesy of YouTube and Simon!!
Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty
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