https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-M0KEFm9I At the 1980 Conservative Party annual conference, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made one of her most infamous speeches when...
Month: September 2012
In 1981, the Jobs Express train chugged across Britain crammed with jobless youngsters. At every stop, there would be a...
The 80s was a terrible time for many of Britain's youth. They were jobless and obliged to attend really dreadful...
In recent years, I've co-authored the biographies of two Coventry black British heroes: Neville Staple and Errol Christie. I've also...
One million young people found themselves on the dole in the grim recession that gripped Britain at the start of...
The front man from The Specials has been in touch to tell me about a new musical venture - I'm...
What were the best five movies of 1981? Well, it was a year when the 1980s blockbuster truly announced its...
Much of the hype around punk since it burst on to the scene in the 1976 is that it instigated...
The BT Tower near Goodge Street in London has to be one of the most neglected and overlooked monuments in...
Out of my personal archive, I've dug up an ancient Sunday Times supplement from April, 1980 that was for the...