Article: Kill the Messenger.

WHEN Margaret Thatcher travelled the world as prime minister, she took a bulldog with her. This jowl-shaking, glowering personification of Britishness was her press secretary, Bernard Ingham-now Sir Bernard. Prizing anonymity in his dealings with the media, he became public property. By the end of a decade in Downing Street, he was as essential to the Thatcher caricature as her steel-framed handbag.

Looking back, almost everything about Mrs Thatcher's 12 years seems touched with gothic melodrama-the political landscape was illuminated not by daylight but by periodic lightning-flashes. Sir Bernard was no exception. He has been likened to Shakespear'e's Iago, to ...

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