There's lots of coppers could be in trouble for turning their backs on her cortege, is it an official protest?

Marginal costing!! not an unreasonable way of understanding the cost.

Given we have so few police on the streets would this event be anymore of a deterent than normal? Perhaps the canteens in police HQ's might suffer?

At a guess i would say this funeral has cost £6m

OTOH the extra pay the police and security forces receive will be spent and thus help stimulate the economy, and it must also be good for business for shops along the route, hotels, undertakers, (well, one!) etc.

It's an ill wind . . .

Charles Moore on Five Live, "Thatcher is reviled in parts of the country that are less important"

I don't know, surely you should remember ?

He was her biographer, probably passing a message on from beyond the fire.

Queenie looked quite happy as she went into St Pauls.

I thought the funeral was beautiful. And it was great that with the exception of a pratt who threw something at the horses and a couple of boos, the crowd was very supportive so we looked dignified to the rest of the world. Thankfully the idiots were all mouth and no action.

I want to know how Bernard Ingham managed to smuggle those two Dulux dogs in on his forehead

Well glad it's all over now.

Managed to sleep in and miss the tories' most expensive party political broadcast ever so quite pleased about that.

The media will be full of it for a few days yet.