Sweetie Pies

Jenny Diski

  • Below the Parapet: The Biography of Denis Thatcher by Carol Thatcher
    HarperCollins, 303 pp, £16.99, April 1996, ISBN 0 00 255605 7

Denis Thatcher is entirely inventable – as John Wells understood: he comes in a flat pack with easy-to-follow instructions, all the components familiar general shapes, all parts from stock, no odd angles, no imagination required. When they came up with the idea for Ikea, they used Denis Thatcher as the prototype. You can make him up in the time it would take to boil an egg.

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