Margaret Thatcher

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I went on a family party to see I Am Legend. It turned out that sitting in the darkness of Holloway Odeon watching rabies/vampires trying to eradicate the last man in New York (wonderful scenes of the city returning to 'nature') was an auspicious way of understanding what was taking place at that very moment in the caucuses in Iowa. The basic plot line of the film is that a slightly mad, Oxford type, English woman scientist Dr Alice Krippen (played in a perfect cameo by Emma Thompson) destroys the human race by trying to eradicate our bad side (cancer). But after billions of deaths said human race is saved at the last minute by lithe African-American Dr Robert Neville (played by Will Smith), who combines love of normal family life with skillful determination, iMacs and even better medical science. In short, the world is saved from Mrs Thatcher by Barack Obama.