Bloody Margaret: three political fantasies - Mark Lawson

The middle-class milieu, the characters set up to embody opposing points of view in debate, the unexceptional prose counterpoised by formal experimentation, the sadsack protagonist mixing the sexual with the ideological. Has David Lodge been copied enough to spawn the term Lodgian? That's what this is, albeit set in the world of 1980s UK politics rather than academia, specifically around the rise and fall of the SDP.

The first, longest story here is by far the best. Funny and thoughtful, and anything about Thatcher will have me interested.