From The “Not Until You Drive A Stake Through Her Heart” Department — There’s a brouhahah a brewin’ in the U.K. over whether or not Margaret Thatcher should receive a full-blown state funeral. This online poll by the Manchester Guardian suggests that most Britons are against the idea, but that hasn’t stopped the rumor (pardon me, rumour) mill in the tabloid press. The story has been making the go-rounds for a long time, as this 2006 denial from Tony Blair’s office shows, but apparently current PM Gordon Brown has had a change of mind and the funeral is back on. This editorial at UK news blog “The First Post”, by a fellow with the dreadfully-Wodehousian name of Peregrine Worsthorne, seems to think it’s a smashing idea, old chap. Of course, first she has to drop dead, which she presently shows no sign of doing. From The “But...
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