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    Adoration of Margaret Thatcher by journalists

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    Milton Friedman falls out with Thatcher

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1980s door policy clubs racism
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1 month ago1 month ago

Racism in 1980s clubs – the door policy!

1980s night clubs operated a high degree of racism when it came to their door policy excluding black youth from entering as Tony McMahon discovers

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3 months ago3 months ago

Thatcher on Apartheid in South Africa

Why was Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister soft on the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa? Tony McMahon investigates.

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3 months ago3 months ago

1980s Gays – rebels or Tories?

In the 1980s – gays had the choice to be Tories or rebels. Faced with Clause 28 and bigotry around AIDS, most chose the latter as Tony McMahon discovers.

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Adoration of Margaret Thatcher by journalists

Margaret Thatcher reduced journalists to a state of adoration for many years through sheer force of character.

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When Thatcher gave into the miners…

1980s door policy clubs racism
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Racism in 1980s clubs – the door policy!

The 70s 80s 90s Blog1 month ago1 month ago08 mins

1980s night clubs operated a high degree of racism when it came to their door policy excluding black youth from entering as Tony McMahon discovers

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  • Politics

Thatcher on Apartheid in South Africa

The 70s 80s 90s Blog3 months ago3 months ago112 mins

Why was Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister soft on the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa? Tony McMahon investigates.

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  • Culture

1980s Gays – rebels or Tories?

The 70s 80s 90s Blog3 months ago3 months ago09 mins

In the 1980s – gays had the choice to be Tories or rebels. Faced with Clause 28 and bigotry around AIDS, most chose the latter as Tony McMahon discovers.

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journalist adoration Thatcher
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Adoration of Margaret Thatcher by journalists

The 70s 80s 90s Blog3 months ago3 months ago05 mins

Margaret Thatcher reduced journalists to a state of adoration for many years through sheer force of character.

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  • Culture

What was life like before digital?

The 70s 80s 90s Blog3 months ago3 months ago015 mins

What was it like to grow up in the world before digital? Late Boomer Tony McMahon reveals all!

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Milton Friedman Thatcher
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Milton Friedman falls out with Thatcher

The 70s 80s 90s Blog3 months ago3 months ago010 mins

In 1982, Milton Friedman finally fell out publicly with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over his monetarist ideology that had deepened the UK recession

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Terry Hall
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Terry Hall from The Specials – 1959-2022

The 70s 80s 90s Blog3 months ago3 months ago13 mins

Just a week before Christmas 2022 – the lead singer of The Specials Terry Hall passed away as Tony McMahon reports

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Strike action today compared with the past

The 70s 80s 90s Blog4 months ago3 months ago09 mins

2022 has seen an increase in strike action but how does it compare to previous decades especially the Thatcher era in the 1980s

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Recession 2022
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Today’s recession – any lessons from the 1980s?

The 70s 80s 90s Blog4 months ago3 months ago015 mins

The recession of 2022 and 2023 has big similarities but also huge differences with the early 1980s recession of Margaret Thatcher as Tony McMahon discovers

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UK inflation in the 1970s and 1980s

The 70s 80s 90s Blog9 months ago9 months ago015 mins

Inflation is on the rise again but will it ever be as bad as the 1970s? Tony McMahon compares that decade to the situation now.

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