‘Now more than ever’

Surreal Girl returned from the last awful death rattle of the political party conference season bearing gifts. As you would expect of anyone returning from a gathering of Tories in Blackpool – the tawdriest place in England – the gifts are of dubious quality. Alongside the obligatory stick of rock, was a blue mug with an image of Thatcher circa 1983 and the slogan: ‘Now more than ever’. If this line was not so ambiguous and the mug so capable of détournement, it could be classed as the most offensive gift I have ever received.