Demonising people with ‘Yuppie Flu’
Yuppie Flu was a condition recognised but mocked in the 1980s
Demonising people with ‘Yuppie Flu’
Yuppie Flu was a condition recognised but mocked in the 1980s
Teaching adult literacy in the 1980s
UK adult illiteracy in the 1980s was at least 5% and I was one of many tutors trying to tackle that.
Was TV better in the 1970s and 1980s?
Was TV better in the 1970s and 1980s or is our nostalgia a big mistake?
Summer of 1976 and Climate Change
The Summer of 1976 saw an exceptional drought and heat but today’s summers are far worse
1986 – 40 years ago in Britain
Looking back at 1986, it was a year when two halves of Britain went in different directions. With the year-long miners’ strike defeated in 1985, industrial areas saw a further surge in unemployment and a sense of despondency. But in London, it was a different world. Financial deregulation in the City of London powered the…
Iran on the eve of the 1979 revolution
Iran is on the verge of revolutionary change not seen since the Shah was overthrown in 1979. So, I thought it would be interesting to look at how Iran was being covered by the global media in 1978, the year before the country became an Islamic republic. Nobody doubted in 1978 that Shah Mohammad Reza…
1976 – 50 years ago in Britain
I turned 13 years of age in 1976 and was at secondary school in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. Let’s look back at a year when we experienced a never ending summer with a resulting drought. Before that, Prime Minister Harold Wilson suddenly resigned for reasons that didn’t seem very obvious. He’d just won election only two…
School summer holidays in the 1970s
2025 marked an astonishing 50 years since I went on a school holiday to Chamonix in France. So, I returned to Chamonix, not having been there since 1975. I don’t know what I expected to find or experience. But the memories came flooding back of a very eventful school summer break. In the mid-1970s, I…
Zoomers challenge Boomer office culture
Gen-Z is challenging the Boomer office culture of the 1980s and they might have a point.
Plane hijacked by samurai wielding terrorists
Imagine your plane being hijacked by nine fanatical ninjas wielding Samurai swords. That was the nasty surprise that lay in store for passengers on Japan Airlines Flight 351 in March, 1970. Members of the Japanese Red Army Faction suddenly leaped from their seats wielding the deadly swords and demanding control of the plane. You may…
