Thursday 5th November
In these times of strife and
discord, it is important that we focus on the real issues that affect modern
Britons. Unless you're the editor of The
Daily Telegraph and you've run out of pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge.
Perhaps that is why, this week, they have focussed
on the V&A not taking a dead woman's clothes. The question is: did they
refuse to take them on the grounds that they're not Oxfam, or did they refuse
on the grounds that the dead woman in question was Mrs Thatcher?
Now, I know what you Guardian readers out there are thinking: why would anyone want to
accept the clothes of Satan's priestess? Well, you have to understand that Telegraph readers view her as a modern
day angel who gives Mother Teresa a run for her money. Readers of The Times couldn't care less, and
readers of The Independent just
really want to talk about climate change for two hours before breakfast.
Anyway, the new chairman of the V&A, Nicholas
Coleridge, has described his "stupefied surprise" at the story, and
added "there has been no turning down of her clothes at all", which
seems like very lacklustre laundering.
The
clothes go up for auction shortly, and maybe some of them will be bought by the
proposed Thatcher Museum. Well informed sources claim that, at this museum,
you will be able to deliver the "No! No! No!" speech from a replica
despatch box, ride around in a tank whilst wearing a scarf, and relive the
Brighton Bomb. And - I promise you - I've only made one of those up.
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