David Maddox: 30 years on again

Whilst on the subject of Mrs Thatcher's famous victory, I noticed a strange but perhaps accidental tribute to the Iron Lady in Glasgow on Saturday night.
If it was a tribute it was a back-handed one by Bob Dylan, who was performing at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.
His opening number was I aint going to work on Maggie's farm no more, which of course became an anthem up in Scotland and elsewhere of the various groupings opposed to her and her works. I played it on the day she resigned much to the disgust of fellow schoolboys at the independent school I attended.
The tributes will go on though. This evening there will be an interesting debate at the The Signet Library, Parliament Square, Edinburgh tonight - "We in Scotland" Thatcherism in a Cold Climate where former Scottish Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP and former Scottish Conservative leader David McLetchie MSP will go head to head with former Labour minister Brian Wilson and former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars.
It will be promoting the excellent journalist and historian David Torrance's new book by the same name. Tickets are £6 a head and it starts at 6.30pm.