Sunday, March the 30th, 2014

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Thatcher Bird Comparison Update

When Margaret Thatcher died last year, I devoted one of my potsages [sic] for The Dabbler to the unresolved question of which bird she most closely resembled. I noted that Matthew Parris claimed “she walked like a partridge”, while Jon Snow asserted “she scuttled about like a hen”. Now things have become more complicated. Reading Dominic Sandbrook's Seasons In The Sun : The Battle For Britain 1974–1979, I learn that the Daily Express compared the then-future Prime Minister to “an angry woodpecker”.