Fish for Friday

Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady

Limerick of the Week:

Margaret Thatcher died this week, obits were varied:
In some of them she's praised, in other's harried;
    In the long run
    We'll all have done
And be like Mrs. Thatcher dead and buried.

Always on Sunday: The Iron Lady[: A love story]

Sundays feature a movie review. The column's title is a play on the title of Jules Dassin's 1960 film, Never on Sunday.

I first laid eyes on Christopher Hitchens's 2010 memoir, Hitch-22, in the Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, Vermont, which beautiful town I remembered fondly in yesterday's post. I read the memoir last year, and one of the many passages that fascinated me was Hitchens's account of meeting Margaret Thatcher. It must have been in 1974 (when Hitchens was 25 years old), soon after she became the leader of the Conservative opposition: