Today her successor has revived it in a speech which, whilst revealing no new policies, reveals a great deal of the government's thinking and is clearly designed as a script for its supporters.

BBC: Economy: There is no alternative (TINA) is back

The script (by David Giler, Walter Hill, and Larry Ferguson) is designed to keep us asking ourselves the fundamental questions: Who will get eaten by the alien?

NEWYORKER: Alien 3