Meryl Streep made a flick with Roseanne Barr? I have no memory of it, thank God. Maybe it is a form of PTSD. And while we're at it that abomination she made with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin was nothing more than her collecting a paycheck.

But back to the topic, I remember being in the UK a couple of times during the Thatcher years, and while she was controversial, it is also fair to say when she took over the country was paralyzed by strikes, and overall "malaise" to use a term associated with a far weaker Western leader of the era. For all her harshness, she probably saved the UK from becoming a third world country.

The satire magazine "Private Eye" ran a brilliant satire every week which was a fictional diary of Denis Thatcher, her husband.