During the 1984/85 miners strike, the tabloid newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch – The Sun and the News of the World – took a very hostile stance towards the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Murdoch was about to take on his own print unions so organised labour was in his sights. The Sun put the…
The 1980s Liverpool club scene was an amazingly vibrant and fun affair with clubs like Cagneys and the Mardi Gras as well as The Raz and The Caz
Wearing a CND badge – a leftie Christmas card I received around 1981.
1979 and 1980 were the glory years of the so-called “second wave” of ska music – first wave in Jamaica twenty plus years before and now the 2Tone wave came crashing out of Coventry. The Specials seized the charts by the scruff of the neck with a string of hits. And even WH Smith felt…
The disastrous lead up to the 1983 general election. Michael Foot interviewed by ITV.
The 1981 riots presented the news media of the time with a huge challenge covering live events around the country that sprang up at a moment’s notice
Heroes of 2Tone in the Record Mirror – from my archives!
From the late 1970s, extreme Right groups like the National Front and British Movement tried to recruit in school playgrounds
A 1970s manifesto from the National Front shows how far mainstream political parties today have drifted to the right with many policies now echoed by them
