Iron Lady's dirty knickers revealed

Must be frustrating to be a historian. Thirty years they had to wait for this?

So Lady Thatcher was playing footsies under the table with Chile's murderous dictator?

Who knew?

Practically anyone who was paying attention. But I suppose it is now "official."

And the relationship between the Iron Lady and the only union leader to ever get elected to the White House doesn't hold many surprises either.

Surely we all know that only among those most deluded with a sense of Imperial entitlement were democracy, liberty, and justice hanging in the balance when Thatcher sent the Royal Navy to liberate the Malvinas.

All things considered, we wouldn't really expect any other leader besides Reagan to second that opinion.

Sacrificing a thousand men so that a few hundred Island sheep farms could keep flying the Union Jack seemed an egregious waste of lives then and it still does today.

But I do like the quote to the effect that Reagan knows a lot less than he appears to.

That was the quintessential Reagan; act like you know what you're talking about and folks will believe that you do.

The revelations that came with the opening of the archives are going to give the Jimmy Savile story another boost. Apparently the BBC star and rampant pederast was so close with the Thatcher family he spent a decade worth of New Years Eve's with them.

Thatcher was wrong about a lot of people.