Maxine Peake is wrong: Margaret Thatcher and Rebekah Brooks are feminist role models

Margaret Thatcher has been out of power for twenty-six years and dead for three, but in our brave new world of virtue signalling (defined in this magazine by its creator James Bartholomew as ‘the way in which many people say or write things to indicate that they are virtuous…one of the crucial aspects of virtue signalling is that it does not require actually doing anything virtuous’) she has become the El Cid of politics, strapped to her trusty steed and sent out into the fray one more time. But interestingly, her corpse is being repeatedly trotted out by her enemies, rather than by those who guard her flame – and what they say tells us far more about their failings than it does about hers.

The actress Maxine Peake recently informed us what a horrid person Mrs T was in the Observer magazine: ‘At least Thatcher knew she was an evil witch,’ she said during an interview.