The bank cheque book was part of our lives in the late 20th century but now it’s hard to remember having a cheque book in your pocket. Let alone using one. While the credit card arrived in the 1970s – with the launch of Access – in my experience, most of us didn’t start running…
In the 1980s, I lived with Nigel Lawson’s nephew while his uncle was Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer and architect of her financial policies.
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
Both unemployment and inflation soared in the first two years of the Thatcher government though the Tories were open to a rise in the jobless figures
Britain once had an economy made up of nationalised industries where the state ran water, transport, energy, telecoms and other services
DeLorean and Laker were among many household name brands destroyed by the early 1980s recession under Margaret Thatcher as Tony McMahon discovers
Between 1979 and 1981, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher presided over an unprecedented economic recession that devastated manufacturing industry
The movie Back to the Future featured a DeLorean car but behind that story was a real-life scandal in Northern Ireland as Tony McMahon discovers
