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Being told to stand still. The lights going up. The police entering in large numbers. Frisking. Individuals led away. Court...
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Coventry in 1981 was a tinderbox of a city primed to explode. Youth unemployment was skyrocketing as factories shut. The...
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It was the hit TV series of the late 1970s to mid 1980s. The BBC aired Dallas from 1978 until...
In the 1980s, capitalism was unleashed to its full. For some, this meant the first opportunity ever to make (and...
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This week, Margaret Thatcher's long-running Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson died aged 91 - an iconic figure of the...
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Recently watched a 1983 report on racism in Liverpool clubs in the 1980s. Two groups of youth - one white...
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How British Prime Ministers like Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak must dream of getting the adoration by many journalists that...
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As we head into 2023, the United Kingdom is doing what it does best - a thumping recession. I've lost...
The Marxist Militant Tendency wielded huge influence in the Labour Party on Merseyside in the 1980s. It operated within the...
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Who was going to control the Merseyside police? The police themselves or the civilian local authority? That was a big...
