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Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it

What bound all opposition to Margaret Thatcher's programme was a suspicion that the grocer's daughter was intent on monetising human value.

• Ian McEwan
• The Guardian, Tuesday 9 April 2013

 Photograph: Gerard Fouet/AFP/Getty Images

 

"Maggie! Maggie! Maggie! Out! Out! Out!" That chanted demand of the left has been fully and finally met. At countless demonstrations throughout the 80s, it expressed a curious ambivalence – a first name intimacy as well as a furious rejection of all she stood for. "Maggie Thatcher" – two fierce trochees set against the gentler iambic pulse of Britain's postwar welfare state. For those of us who were dismayed by her brisk distaste for that cosy state-dominated world, it was never enough to dislike her. We liked disliking her. She forced us to decide what was truly important.

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