“There will be the usual stuff this week, I expect, about how Ronald Reagan and his faithful ally Margaret Thatcher brought down the wall with their intransigent anti-communism. The most recently opened archives aren’t so kind to this view, either.”  So observes Christopher Hitchens in an article posted to online magazine Slate on Monday.

Hitchens refers to this article by Michael Binyon in the London Times a few weeks back. “Mrs Thatcher knew full well that her remarks would cause a row if revealed….”