Life Peers

Just one more reason to loathe and despise Thatcher! Carol seems O.K., she was never her mother's favourite.

Thanks absent, I only half remembered the song!

No she wasn't – and that was made very clear to Carol Thatcher and the rest of us. She was/is truly an appalling woman in just about every way.

Well put absent

A couple of months ago I was trying to express this to my son who was 13 when Mrs T resigned so he had not really been aware of what a dreadful woman she was.

Leaving aside my negative opinions on her political views and actions. It was her appallingly condescending manner that probably made her so disliked. She finished up being defeated by her own delusions of power though.

Nelliemoser I watched The Iron Lady on a long-haul flight earlier this year, even though Meryl Streep is a long way from being my favourite actress. (I have already expressed my views about Maggie Thatcher.) The awful thing was that I found myself feeling pity for the woman portrayed in the film and had to keep reminding myself of political aspects that the movie ignored.

anodomini My father was a Gilbert and Sullivan addict and we went to see many Savoy operas in my childhood, not to mention hearing many recordings. It's all there tucked away in the back of the brain part. I wish I could remember more important things quite so easily.

We had that experience too, absent. I used to read the libretti for fun. Strange child.

In my student days in London I lived just behind Sadlers Wells theatre.At that time Doyly Carte had several complete runs of G&S.there.I saw most of them several times.-queued up for the gallery seats. Iolanthe is my favorite

to get back to the OP(!) Whilst I think there is a case for a second house I don't think we need 900 of them! We also need less in the Commons.

I wonder whether an elected second house wouldn't be a better solution - by the way I wouldn't mind £300 per day just for showing up - where to I apply?

Sorry, Barrow, you have to be asked!
We did The Pirates of Penzance at school. I will never forget the words of The Modern Major General!

Greatnan Have you every heard that sung in Swedish? It is breathtakingly funny.

My Swedish is non existent!

Well I can only propose a toast in a Swedish – and I get that muddled up with Danish which I also don't speak. It's just the sound of those squeezed Swedish vowels in what is already a ridiculous song.