One word that I've heard too much in my life is recession. Millennials got their first recession in 2008. Before...
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In the summer of 1981, riots gripped every major city in Britain - but with particular ferocity in Brixton, London...
I was in the sixth form when the 1981 riots kicked off and arriving at university in Liverpool as they...
Emptying out my parents' attic as they downsize, I opened a tatty plastic bag and out fell a load of...
Two parties brought the Labour government of Jim Callaghan to its knees - the Liberals and the Scottish Nationalists. Both...
In 1981, the miners won - but not in 1985 The Lady was not for Turning - except when it...
These were blu-tacked to my bedroom wall when I was a student - found them yesterday languishing at the bottom...
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...
Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. Her eventual downfall came in 1990. But even within...
Quite a few left wing firebrands from the 1970s and 1980s have now been forgotten. Who can remember Red Robbo,...