Margaret Thatcher is not a good role model – but not necessarily for the reasons you think | Zoe Williams

Keir Starmer is just the latest politician to invoke the former Tory prime minister, even though her essential message was that society was for losers

Another day, another British political wannabe making remarks about Margaret Thatcher that you can only file under: Did you ever meet Thatcher? Fine, most of us did not meet her, but did you ever meet anyone who was alive under Thatcher?"

To Liz Truss and free market fundamentalists everywhere, channelling Thatcher means forging ahead against all expertise, making dumb and predictably immiserating decisions, then turning round when things go wrong and saying that it is everybody else's fault that you couldn't vandalise hard enough.