Really? Another fish wives tale dispelled. I'm irrevocably disappointed. They should ban programmes like QI - one likes to have one's tales to recount to one's own children.
Thatcher's dad was a grocer but she got a degree in chemistry so there's every chance that she was running a pharmacy and hacking phones etc at the same time. In fact i am convinced that she used her knowledge to help Hharold Shipman - dunno why she bothered though as some of her policies were responsible for killing far more OAPs than Harold could ever have managed on his own.
Thatcher was actually the first to be under the wing of Murdoch. Another proud legacy for mad old ****.
I have never been able to take Murdoch seriously after the introduction of his grotesque farting caricature on Spitting Image Mind you I couldn't take many people in the limelight seriously after the first 5 years of the programme.
Why was it in Spitting Image the journalists were portrayed as vultures? I've never been able to work that one out.