What is sad – even for them – is the apparent isolation. I think some people actually did like Thatcher (although I can't think why), but the other three seem to be generally loathed and mocked in spite of, or maybe because of, their power.

Rooney seems so clearly not to be a team player but an angry and selfish young man with a particular talent. But how we laugh when we learn that his house has a library.

But the whole world isn't like that. I've just ordered a CD (von Stade) and a book (Dench) and I've got Ella and Louis playing at the moment. The world can be a grand place.

Osborne and his fellow Toffs are desperate to seize what they see as a golden opportunity to carry through Thatcher's half-completed project: destroy the welfare state, hand the economy over to their friends, and centralise control whilst pretending it's nothing to do with them.

[I also had a rant last night – Toffs and Turncoats – http://blog.michalska.net/2010/10/toffs-and-turncoats.html%5D

Meanwhile their buddy Murdoch's media empire churns out the Rooney diet of "money, fast cars, sex, football and self-promotion".

I wonder what that nice MP of ours thinks of all this?

Hang on in there Wolfie. Keep on telling it like you see it. You'll feel better for it.