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We worry today about various kinds of extreme Right activity - especially online. The impact it has on young people....
1981 riots
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2021 will be the anniversary of three outbreaks of riots in the UK. Back in 1981, the Thatcher government faced...
In 1981, an Oi! skinhead gig at the Hambrough Tavern in the London district of Southall ended in a violent...
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The early 1980s witnessed a very productive output of anti Tory art from the Left and the labour movement. Go...
Two big reasons I chose Liverpool for university in 1981 and they were: politics and music. The city was bubbling...
I was in the sixth form when the 1981 riots kicked off and arriving at university in Liverpool as they...
Updating this post in July 2020, I'm now looking at history repeating on mass unemployment. Seemingly every day, the TV...
Emptying out my parents' attic as they downsize, I opened a tatty plastic bag and out fell a load of...
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Ten years ago I co-wrote the biography of Neville Staple - vocalist in The Specials. An entire generation came of...
During my sabbatical year as Deputy President of Liverpool University Guild of Undergraduates (student union to you and me), there...
