Sadly I can't bring you a link due to Murdoch's bloody firewall (serious mistake) but both Matthew Parris and Danny Finkelstein discuss speaking ill of the dead (Crow and Benn) in a very interesting, often funny and quite intelligent way. Worth buying the paper.

Funnily enough I feel quite similar about both Benn and Thatcher. I liked them both personally whilst disagreeing with most of their policies. But the one thing I really admired about both was - they both genuinely and totally believed in their own opinions and morality. Right or wrong, they did and said what they did for the right reasons; not to win friends or please the media or gain fans, but because they felt it was best for society.

I take a bit of one and a bit of the other. Responsible capitalism is the route to go, with the moral goal of communism. Never the twain shall meet? Not necessarily.