Children of Enterprise

Well, isn't this heart-warming: a couple of fine British specimens have started up some healthy competitiveness over wealth creation. The wealth being augmented is that of Carol Thatcher, who is auctioning off nearly two hundred of her sainted mother's possessions and flogging another couple of hundred online. Items for sale include not only personal bequests to the Thatchlings, but gifts bestowed upon their sainted mother by her many admirers, thugs and sycophants. The enterprising Carol is also selling official and private papers, in a charming echo of that fragrant episode during the Major interregnum when Churchill's grandson was paid twelve and a half million in public money for the archive of the old bag's well-known Second World War incarnation. The whole business has infuriated the more intellectual Thatcher spawn, Sir Mark of Wonga and Equatorial Guinea, because the rest of the family will not automatically benefit from the proceeds. It is as yet unclear how many of them will be visiting food banks as a result; but there can be little doubt that the old bag herself would be proud of the family values and entrepreneurial spirit on display.