Does anyone here watch Grantchester on PBS?

[muriel_volestrangler]

54. He also got into an argument with Maggie Thatcher about military triumphalism

Lord Runcie, the former archbishop of Canterbury who died in July, has left a timebomb for his critic Lady Thatcher in the shape of a television interview criticising her policies, recorded a week before his death.

The former archbishop was attacked by the government and tabloid press for his sermon praying for the dead of both sides after the Falklands war and for the Church of England's criticisms of policy in the inner cities. But he will have gentle posthumous revenge in a documentary made by his son James to be broadcast by Channel 4 on December 16.

In it Lord Runcie, who was dying of cancer, confirmed he had directed the Falklands sermon, attacking the attitudes of "those who stay at home, most violent in their attitudes and untouched in themselves" at the government of the day.

The sermon, at what the government had seen as a triumphal service at St Paul's Cathedral after the Falklands war in 1982, provoked attacks on the archbishop for a supposed lack of patriotism, all the more aggravating for ministers because, having won the Military Cross as a tank commander in the second world war, he could not be depicted as ignorant of warfare.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/29/thatcher.politics