Her official briefing paper, released by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation, added that punk was popular for a while but died out after the Sex Pistols split up in 1978, to be replaced “by the current technological musical era featuring computers, synthesisers and videos”. Photograph: Tom Stoddart Archive/Getty ImagesThatcher was always prone to fainting, according to Chris Collins, the historian of the foundation. Unfortunately the bread recipe Thatcher offered did not prove to be foolproof. Downing Street was inundated with letters of complaint from people who had tried Thatcher’s bread. One complained it was “just like chewing gum” and another wrote that it was “was bad enough to cry”.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2017 22:52 UTC