2021 will be the anniversary of three outbreaks of riots in the UK. Back in 1981, the Thatcher government faced...
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Where were the Tories on the question of racism in the 1970s? This is especially pertinent given accusations in recent...
Campaigning to save the GLC The whole saga around the Greater London Council in the early 80s doesn't exactly cover...
The summer of 1981 saw a tsunami of urban riots against the Thatcher government as youth unemployment soared and long...
When I was a kid in the 70s, my Dad would take my sister and I down to Petticoat Lane...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Br6V9cAGE In the 1970s, the National Front saw Bradford as a fertile recruiting ground. In the video above is footage...
The lives of working class black families were a terra incognita for most white British three decades ago. So it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTV1mey0SlM With boring predictability, Enoch Powell rose up after the 1981 riots doing his Cassandra routine and telling us that...
I wrote two biographies set in Coventry that exposed the racism and violence in that city back in the 1980s...
In 2011, the paperback of my biography of Neville Staple was published by Aurum Press. I'd spent countless hours with...