No, no, no

I won't be going to see the new film about Margaret Thatcher when it's released in the New Year.  You need a pretty strong stomach just to watch the trailer.

The plot seems to have been pulled straight off the Hollywood shelf: grocer's daughter from small town braves male chauvinism to reach the top.  The producers claim that the film is a "compelling story of ..a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world." No mention obviously of the millions of lives smashed apart as a result, from the miners, printers, steelworkers and dockers thrown out of work to the hundreds of thousands of young people with no hope of ever finding a job. 

As we return to recession and mass unemployment under the Tories, young people who see the film might at least learn who was responsible for creating the dog-eat-dog society they now have to live in, hopefully just in time to celebrate Thatcher's death with the rest of us. I've had a bottle of champagne on standby for months now...

Crisis, what crisis?

The media hoo-haa about the problems being experienced by Blackberry users continues with The Guardian today reprinting the tweets of celebrities caught up in the end of the world as they know it including Alan Sugar, cricketer Kevin Pietersen, Jemima Khan and Alastair Campbell who added the hashtag #getmybloodyblackberrybackon.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, the official unemployment figures topped two and a half million for the first time since 1994 - i.e. the last recession under a Tory government - with nearly a million of those signing on young people between 18 and 24.