It’s official: Thatcher’s off her head

It is shocking for all Daily Mail readers. God is about to die. Yeah, a few weeks after it was decided that Mrs T will get a state funeral, her daughter, Carol Thatcher, writes her memoirs and reassures us that mum will be gone soon.
This is sad. I will not make a joke about the mental illness of the former Prime Minister, who (and even I as a liberal admit that) did (a few) great things for Britain.
But the way the Daily Mail writes about MT’s dementia made me nearly cry this morning, as I was drinking a rubbish Americano in Costa.
Amanda Platell of the Mail complaints that Carol should not have written this book. “To me,” she wrote, “and to many who admired or loved her mother, it felt not only like a terrible invasion of an old woman’s privacy but a personal betrayal.”
What? There are people who love and admire her??
The Mail’s position here is clear: don’t mention the illness; pretend everything is fine. Thatcher has never been ill, she will never have dementia, she will never die - and if she does, she will come back, just like Jesus did.
“Particularly distasteful is the revelation in Carol’s book that her mother sometimes forgets that her beloved Denis is gone.” – If it is that “distasteful”, why did the Mail on Sunday print it then, exclusively?!
“My only hope is that Lady Thatcher’s dementia will mean that the full extent of her daughter’s crass misjudgement can soon be forgotten, …”, that’s what Amanda Platell wrote in today’s Mail… I am not quite sure why the Mail did not use the story to explain dementia to its reader. The story would have been especially interesting for the Mail’s readers, considering that most of them probably suffer of this not too entertaining illness already.
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