26. Alwyn W. Turner, Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s (2010), p. 114; Moore, Not for Turning, p. 752; Sir John Coles, ‘Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher’, c. 14 June 1984, TFW.
27. Campbell, Iron Lady, p. 155; Moore, Not for Turning, p. 755; Wall Street Journal, 20 June 1982; The Times, 21 June 1982.
28. Daily Mirror, 16 June 1982; Spectator, 19 June 1982; Clark, Diaries: Into Politics, p. 336; Guardian, 16 June 1982.
29. Campbell, Iron Lady, p. 215; Keith Britto, ‘Public Opinion Background Note 116’, 5 June 1982, TFW; Keith Britto, ‘Public Opinion Background Note 118’, 20 June 1982, TFW; Keith Britto, ‘Public Opinion Background Note 123’, 25 June 1982; Bernard Ingham to Thatcher, ‘Media Relations – Stocktaking and Look Ahead’, 3 August 1982, TFW. See also Ivor Crewe, ‘How to Win a Landslide without Really Trying: Why the Conservatives Won in 1983’, in Austin Ranney (ed.), Britain at the Polls, 1983: A Study of the General Election (Durham, NC, 1985), p. 159.
30. The Times, 7 May 1982; and see the Britto poll data cited above, chapter 33, n. 32.
31. David Sanders, Hugh Ward, David Marsh and Tony Fletcher, ‘Government Popularity and the Falklands War: A Reassessment’, British Journal of Political Science, 17:3 (1987), pp. 281–313.
32. The Economist, 19 June 1982; Coles, ‘Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher’, c. 14 June 1984, TFW; Hugh Thomas to Thatcher, 16 June 1982, TFW; The Times, 31 March 1983.
33. ‘Clipping of MT Interview with Woman’s Own Magazine’, 3 August 1982, TFW; ‘No. 10 Record of Conversation (MT-Alexander Solzhenitsyn)’, 11 May 1983, TFW.
34. Guardian, 16 June 1982; Daily Mail, 16 June 1982; Benn, End of an Era, p. 239; The Economist, 26 June 1982; Daily Express, 22 June 1982.
35. Campbell, Iron Lady, p. 159; Coles, ‘Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher’, c. 14 June 1984, TFW; Andy Beckett, Promised You a Miracle: UK80–82 (2015), p. 269.
36. Evening Standard, 15 June 1982; Robert Harris, Gotcha! The Media, the Government and the Falklands Crisis (1983), p. 145; Bramley, Excursion to Hell, pp. 210–11.
37. Julian Critchley, Some of Us: People Who Did Well under Thatcher (1992), pp. 141–2. On the idea of the war as a turning point, see, for example, Graham Stewart, Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s (2013), pp. 130–31; Moore, Not for Turning, p. 754; Parr, Our Boys, pp. 243–4; and especially Anthony Barnett, Iron Britannia: Time to Take the Great out of Britain (1982). On the nostalgic feel of the war, see Spectator, 19 June 1982; Burns, Land That Lost Its Heroes, pp. x–xi; Parr, Our Boys, pp. xv, 267.
38. Daily Express, 22 June 1982.
39. ‘Speech to Conservative Rally at Cheltenham’, 3 July 1982, TFW. On the background to the speech, see Christopher Collins’s analysis at https://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/1982cac4.asp, as well as Moore, Not for Turning, pp. 753–4.
40. The Times, 19 July 1982; Daily Express, 19 July 1982.
41. Clark, Diaries: Into Politics, pp. 340–41.
42. Daily Mirror, 12 July 1982.
43. Russell Davies (ed.), The Kenneth Williams Diaries (1993), p. 648.
44. John Coles to Clive Whitmore, ‘Service of Thanksgiving’, 2 July 1982, TFW; John Coles to Clive Whitmore, ‘Service of Thanksgiving’, 5 July 1982, TFW. John Coles to Thatcher, 9 July 1982, TFW; Freedman, War and Diplomacy, pp. 663–4; Eliza Filby, God and Mrs Thatcher: The Battle for Britain’s Soul (2015), pp. 157–9; Moore, Not for Turning, pp. 755–7.
45. The Times, 27 July 1982, 28 July 1982; Daily Express, 27 July 1982; Mark Garnett, From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975 (2007), pp. 186–7.
46. Moore, Not for Turning, p. 757; Willie Whitelaw, in David L. Edwards (ed.), Robert Runcie: A Portrait by His Friends (1990), p. 260; Clark, Diaries: Into Politics, pp. 347–8.
47. MO S496, Falklands Special, 1982.
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Aaronovitch, David 334
ABC 282
Abelson, Lucy 63–4
Abigail’s Party 22
Abrahams, Harold 621, 622–3
Abse, Leo 375, 531, 556
Acheson, Dean 114, 790
Acorn Computers 709, 719–22, 728–9
Adams, Gerry 564, 565, 569, 598
Adamson, Lesley 139–40
Adley, Robert 802
affluence 18–20, 25, 157–8, 457, 679, 680, 698–9
Afghanistan 180–81
Ahlberg, Allan 671, 672, 679
Aitken, Ian 268
Aitken, Jonathan 40, 42, 117
Akass, Jon 343
Alas, Alas for England (Heren) 13, 307
Album of the Royal Wedding 609
alcohol 685, 694
Aldiss, Brian 770–71
Aldous, Tony 699
All Our Tomorrows (Allbeury) 397
Allara, Jorge 791–2, 793
Allaun, Frank 232, 348–9
Allbeury, Ted 397
Allen, Jim 581
Allen, Patrick 28–9, 393–4
advice on getting generous mortgages 29
advice on getting rid of irradiated bodies 394
Allen, Peter 274
Allen, Vic 405
Alliance see SDP–Liberal Alliance
Allison, Lincoln 17–18, 132–3, 212–13, 216, 331, 332, 526, 675, 678
’Allo ’Allo! 167
‘Alms to Oblivion’ (Raven) 144
Alternative Economic Strategy 193, 352, 457
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers see AUEW
Amery, Julian 273, 754, 843
Amis, Kingsley 81, 397, 771
Amis, Martin xxx
Among the Thugs (Buford) 218
Anaya, Jorge 739, 741–2, 743
Anderson, Lindsay 622
Anderson, Magnus 720
Anderson, Viv 503, 631
Annabel’s nightclub 127
Anne, Princess Royal 600
Ant, Adam 282, 291–3, 294, 297
anti-entrepreneurialism 11–12
Apple computers 711, 729
Archer, Jeffrey xxiii, 19
architecture 29–30
Arden, John 771
Ardent, HMS 810–11
‘Are “Friends” Electric?’ (Tubeway Army) 277–8
Argentina
British views of 738–9, 763
Falkland Islands 732–5, 737
Falklands War
casualties 827
invasion 739–53, 755–6, 764–86
peace plans 780–82, 784–5, 789, 797
military prowess, or lack of 826–7
monetarism 205
Arguments for Democracy (Benn) 540
armed forces 832–3 see also British Army; Royal Navy
Armstrong, Robert 48, 215
arson attacks on holiday homes in Wales 552–4
Arthur 624
Ascension Island 779, 782
Ashby, Dame Margery Corbett 75–6
Ashe, Thomas 563
‘Ashes to Ashes’ (Bowie) 289–90, 299
Ashley, Laura 617
Ashton, Joe 343, 369, 532
ASLEF 839
Aspinall, John 127
Astiz, Alfredo 743
ASTMS (Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs) 343–4, 353, 374, 536
Aston Villa, fans of annihilated by nuclear bomb 388
astrology 808
athletics 621–32
Atkins, Humphrey 557, 563, 568, 745, 751, 753
Atkinson, Sir Fred 452
Atkinson, Rowan 493, 500, 553
Atlantic Conveyor 812
Attlee, Clement 412, 413
AUEW (Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers) 157, 159, 316, 317–19, 328, 381–2
Austin Metro xxiii, xxvii, 304–7, 317, 322–3, 327
Australia 778
Authors Take Sides on the Falklands 770–71
automation 482–3
Avant Gardening: A Guide to One-Upmanship in the Garden (Titchmarsh) 19
Babylon 508
Bader, Sir Douglas 504
Bailey, Michael 511
Bainbridge, Beryl 254, 503, 526–7, 675, 682, 686, 699
Baistow, Tom 775
Baker, Danny 279–80
Baker, Kenneth 705, 716–17, 725
fan of Space Invaders 716–17
Baker, Tom 66
Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union 476
Balfe, Richard 603
Ballard, J. G. 279, 712
Ballykelly 598
Balsall Heath, Birmingham 247
Bank of England 97, 104, 106, 189, 196, 197, 264, 265, 270, 440, 460
abolition of exchange controls 108–9
money supply targets 95
sterling rate 93, 258–9, 269
Margaret Thatcher not a fan of 102, 269
Banks, Tony 529, 531
Banks-Smith, Nancy 616
Baptiste, David 631
Barber, Lynden 296
Barclay, Patrick 211, 216–17, 223
Barnes, John 631
Barnes, Simon 491, 642
Barnet Press 117
Barnett, Anthony 757
Barnsley 480
Barr, Ann 611, 618–19
Barratt, Lawrie 28–30
BASIC 718–19, 720
Basingstoke 681
Basle 210–11, 649
Basnett, David 370–71, 374, 381, 382
BBC
and Acorn Computers 727
Christmas 1981 692–3
Computer Literacy Project 718, 720–22, 725
Falklands War coverage 801–3, 802–5
and riots 521
and SDP 427
World Service 814
BBC Micro computer 709, 717–22, 728
Beat (pop group) 297, 476
Beatles 287, 330–31
Beatty, Warren 623
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, 1st Baron 210
Beckett, Margaret 547, 548
drips with venom 547
Beckett, Sir Terence xx, 272
Bedser, Alec 637
Beer, Samuel 10
Beetham, Sir Michael 807
BEF (British Electric Foundation) 282
Belfast 558, 559, 566
Belgium 357–9
Bell, Sir Ronald 521
benefits cuts 149, 468
Benjamin, Floella 503
Benn, Hilary 536, 603
Benn, Anthony Wedgwood (Tony)
believes BBC is an agency of the SDP 427
capital controls plan 367
CND 394, 395–6, 400
colleagues’ disobliging views of 345
Corby 140
Daily Star 775
Department of Industry 13, 342
disapproves of tower blocks 249
EEC 170, 176
exchange controls 109
Falklands War 734, 754, 769, 788–9, 826, 837
films Callaghan swimming 354
Foot calls a bloody liar 415
Foot calls an unctuous hypocrite 530
Gang of Four 415, 416
Gang of Three 365
general election of 1979 348
jolly chat with Sir Keith Joseph on train 13
Labour Party
Bishop’s Stortford meeting 1980 353–4
conference 1979 349–51
conference 1980 366–70, 371
deputy leadership election 376, 530–48, 550
electoral college 382
leadership election 372–4
Shadow Cabinet 548–9
Lady Chatterley syndrome 345
leadership ambitions 346–7, 351, 352
living in a dream world 837
lunacy 344, 347, 366, 367
most misrepresented man since Robert Mugabe 540
as a Nazi 540, 542–3
People’s March for Jobs 462
plan for national revival 533
potential Pope or Queen 550
populism 346
and Primarolo, Dawn 339–40
reselection of MPs 343
socialist conversion 344–7
succumbs to Julie Christie 396
succumbs to viral infection 535–7
on Thatcherism 333
thinks Callaghan is a Tory 788
thinks Foot is a Tory 349, 354, 754, 826
thinks other Labour MPs are Tories 373, 533
thinks SDP are fascists 426
Bennett, Alan 825
Bennett, Arnold 595
Benyon, John 508
Berry, Stephen (Mass Observation Project) 20, 483
Best, George 490, 635
Betjeman, Sir John 602
Betts, Clive 233
Bevan, Aneurin 698–9
Bhatti, Mahmud and Mohammad 225
Biffen, John 42, 87, 89, 101, 196, 200, 275, 435, 652, 715, 752
Big Country 161
‘big freeze’ of 1981–2 691–2, 693–4, 702
Biggs-Davison, Sir John 843
Bilston 673–4
bingo 772–3
Birley, Robin 127–8
Birmingham 232, 247, 253–4, 299, 414–15, 466, 503, 504, 517
hailed as most go-ahead city in Europe 254
in reality, a concrete nightmare 254
obliterated by nuclear bomb 388
BL see British Leyland
Black Country 672–5
Black Country Living Museum 674–5
Black Forest gateau 36, 120
Blackburn 679
Blackpool 366
Blackwood, Caroline 396
Blair, David 560, 561
Blake, David 92, 112, 477
Blake’s 7 80, 692–3
Blatherwick, David 568
Bleasdale, Alan 157, 473–4, 476, 677
Blitz (magazine) 289
Blitz (nightclub) 282–6, 288–9, 294, 420
Blofeld, Henry 636
Blondie 281
Bluff Cove air attacks 816
Blunkett, David 233, 403, 582–5
Blunt, Sir Anthony 112
BOA (British Olympic Association) 181, 183
Boateng, Paul 502, 587
Bod 394
Body Shop 69
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (Queen) 299
Bolton 676
Bond, James 66, 331–2, 647–8
amused by thought of female scientist 66
attempts re-entry 66
impersonated by parrot 647–8
Bonds, Billy 214
Boney M 281
Bonzo, Hector 792, 793
bookshops 18–19
Bootle 678
Boots 128, 505
Borg, Bjorn 486
Borges, Jorge Luis 830
Borneo 769
Borowiecka, Magda 250
Botham, Ian xxiii, xxvii, 633–43
on changing nappies 621
disapproves of Labour Party 633
hapless captaincy 635–7
personification of beef 655
punch-ups 634–5
saviour of his country 641–3
bottled water 130–31
Bourne & Hollingsworth 702
Bowie, David 282, 283, 289–90, 291, 292
‘cunt in a clown suit’ 289
Bowles, Peter 85
Boy George 292, 293, 297
Boyd, Sir John 537
Boys from the Blackstuff 73–4, 157, 333, 473–4, 476, 677, 686
Boyson, Rhodes 520
Bracknell 681
Bradbury, Malcolm 334
Bradford 403, 679
Bradford, Keith 507
Bradley, Tom 416
Bradshaw, John 233
Bradshaw, Margaret (Mass Observation P
roject) 118–19, 130, 165, 168, 605, 701–2, 766
Braine, Sir Bernard 736, 743, 754, 803
Bramall, Sir Edwin 807
Bramley, Vincent 762–3, 764, 782, 793, 794, 808–9, 812–13, 817–18, 828, 831
Brandt, Willy 422
Brasher, Chris 186
Bravo, Mark 508
Brearley, Mike 634, 638, 639, 640, 641
‘Breathing’ (Bush) 398
Breslin, John 574–5
Brexit xxix, 167
Brideshead Revisited (television series) xxiii, 615–18, 659
Briers, Richard 128
Briggs, Raymond 397–8, 830
Bright, Ray 639
Bristol 337, 339, 509, 521
Bristow, Eric 493
British Antarctic Survey 740–41, 751
British Army 557, 560, 572, 591, 763–4
British Electric Foundation (BEF) 282
British Empire 764–5
British Leyland
abysmal productivity 308
Austin Metro 303–7, 323
Edwardes, Michael 311–12, 326–7
finance 313–14, 319, 323–4, 327
industrial relations 306–7, 308, 311, 314–23
Longbridge car plant 303–7, 314–15, 318, 319–20, 322–3, 326
management 308
Recovery Plan 314–15, 322
Two Ronnies’ views of 209
British Steel 138–41, 146–7, 152–3, 161–2, 257, 554
British Steel (Judas Priest) 673
Brittan, Leon 89, 393
Brixton 509–11, 521, 524–5, 604–5
riots xxiii, 511–14, 524, 588, 649
‘Brixton Nick’ (housing project) 249–50
Broadwater Farm, Tottenham 246, 249
Brocklebank-Fowler, Christopher 419
Bromley Council 594
Brooking, Trevor 207
Brookside 239, 475
Brown, Craig 281
Brown, George 114, 151, 415
Brown, George Mackay 489
Brown, Janet 648
Brown, Ronald 418
Brown, Tina 613, 615
Brownjohn, Alan 771
Bruce-Gardyne, Jock 274, 697
Brummer, Alex 698
Brunner, Karl 263–4, 265
Bruno, Frank 631
Brussels 357–9
Bucks Fizz 702
Budgen, Nicholas 742
budget deficits 197, 270, 439–42, 448, 455
Budgets
1979 99–104
1980 194–5
1981 438–43, 447–52, 454–6, 459–60
1982 706–7
Buford, Bill 217–22
Buggles 300
building societies 240–41
Bullock, Alan, Baron 415
Burger King 133
Burgess, Anthony 616
Burke, Edmund 343
Burn, Gordon 486, 487, 489, 493, 494, 496
Burns, Jimmy 793
Burns, Terry 42, 265
Bury 403
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