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pelted with missiles 149, 325
slaps own head 312, 313, 325
unemployment 98
universities 334
Wiener, Martin J. 12
working mothers 71, 72
writhes with unhappiness 324
Joy Division xxiii, 251–3
Judas Priest 672–3
Juliet Bravo xxiii, 67–8
Junor, John 150–51, 670
suggests Bennites should be locked up 544
would not send Bennites to gas chamber, though 544
Kal (Kevin Kallaugher), cartoon 55
Kane and Abel (Archer) xxiii, 19
Kaufman, Gerald 248
Keating, Frank 224, 226, 631
Kee, Robert 805
Keegan, Kevin 207, 208
Keegan, Victor 25, 720, 725, 726
Keegan, William 109
Keetley, John 467
Keith, Penelope 80, 84–6
Kellett, Caroline 614
Kellner, Peter 798
Kemp, Gary 282, 285–6, 287–8, 290, 291, 296, 297, 612
Kemp, Martin 296–7
Kennedy, Ludovic 55, 80
Kennedy Martin, Ian 67
Kent, Bruce 392, 400, 404, 405
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) 133–4
Kettle, Martin 504
Keynesianism 94–5, 96
KGB 405
Kidderminster 674
Kiley, Penny 294–5
King, Anthony 353, 366, 380, 418, 421, 428
King, Francis 771
King, Peter 231, 237–8
Kington, Miles 642–3
Kinnock, Neil 375, 376, 394, 427, 532, 539, 545, 547
attacks lounge lizards 427
attacks Bennite ravers 539
batters man in Brighton hotel toilet 547
Kipling, Rudyard 765, 789–90
Kirkpatrick, Jeane 779
Kissinger, Henry 9
Kitson, Alex 532
Knight, Ted 578, 588
Knowles, Tony 491
Kohl, Helmut 178
Kraftwerk 281, 292
Kureishi, Hanif 36
Kynaston, David 108
Labour Activist 348
Labour Herald 769
Labour Party
baying of the beast 370
Birmingham rally 1981 541–2
Bishop’s Stortford meeting 1980 353–5
Botham’s disapproval of 633
CLPD (Campaign for Labour Party Democracy) 342–4
conference 1979 348–51
conference 1980 365–71
conference 1981 664
defectors to SDP 414
deputy leadership election 1981 530–51
electoral college shenanigans 354–5, 369–71, 381–2, 546
entryism 339–41
imminent end of capitalism 340
Islington xxiii, 339, 547
leadership elections 372–7
loyalty test 415
manifesto 341–2, 369
millenarian zeal 340–41
Norwood 577
nuclear disarmament 352–3, 370, 376, 394–5, 401–2
opinion polls 547–8
party machine 338–9
‘Play School Marxism’ 341
reselection of MPs 342–3, 344, 349, 354–5, 368–9
support for 337–8
Times ‘in memoriam’ notice 382
Tribune Group 531–2, 539, 546–7
Wembley conference 1980 352–3
Wembley conference 1981 381–2
Lacey, David 213–14, 223, 224–5
Lacey, Robert 607–8
‘Lady Di’ look 615
The Lady’s Not for Burning (Fry) 269
‘the lady’s not for turning’ 269
Laidler, David 703
Laing, Sir Hector 81
Lamont, Norman 437
Lancaster, Terence 382, 432, 538
Lancaster, Walter 667
‘The Land of Make Believe’ (Bucks Fizz) 702
Lane, Carla 74
Lankester, Tim 189, 264, 266, 439, 440, 442–3
Lansman, Jon 344, 382, 537, 542
Large, Peter 726–7
Last of the Summer Wine 686, 693
Lawrence, Stephen 524
Lawson, Nigel
British industry 261–2
Budget of 1979 99, 104
Budget of 1981 454
council housing 242
decline of UK economy 49
as Energy Secretary 656
exchange controls 108–9
Falklands War 751, 781
Howe, Sir Geoffrey 90
inflation 458–9
monetarism 96–7, 98, 107
Monetary Base Control 106
MTFS (Medium Term Financial Strategy) 195–7
North Sea oil 257
pound, strength of 259
Thatcher, Margaret 42, 78, 98, 105, 265
Thatcherism 45, 46–7
trade unions 145
Wets 192, 663
Lawson, Nigella 613
Layard, Richard 477
Le Bon, Simon 296, 297
heir to T. S. Eliot 296
no fan of CND 406
le Carré, John 113
Leach, Sir Henry 736–7, 745–6, 752, 797–8, 807, 812
Leamington Spa 132–3, 526
Lean, Tom 712, 714, 722, 728
Lee Kuan Yew 824
Lehane, Denis 540
Leigh, Mike 22
leisure 19–20
Lennon, John 297, 329–31, 346
lesbianism 585, 597
Lescott, Joleon 527
Let’s Go: Britain and Ireland 4–5, 6, 129–30
Letwin, Oliver 36, 141
Levene, Rebecca 720
Levenson, David 207
Levin, Bernard 355, 378, 404, 408
Levi’s 283
Levy, Geoffrey 63
Lewin, Sir Terence 777, 791, 832
Liberal Party 380, 425–6, 432–3, 705–6 see also SDP–Liberal Alliance
Liddell, Eric 620–22
Liddelow, David 43
Life in the English Country House (Girouard) 617
Lillelien, Bjørge 209–10
Limehouse 412
Limehouse Declaration 411, 412–14, 424, 425, 435–6
The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst) 34
Litterick, Tom 349
Liverpool 330, 331, 339, 466, 467, 515–16, 677–8
Toxteth 515–16, 521, 523, 638, 649, 650
Living 38, 76, 117
living standards see affluence
Livingstone, Ken 544, 547, 573, 576–81, 585, 586–93, 600, 603, 649, 665
admiration for Princess Anne 600
body desired by Norman Fowler 595
GLC leadership coup 580
newt-fancying 577, 587
non-attendance at orgy 588
sympathy for the IRA 576, 589–92, 598
views on Hitler and the Jews 573, 598–9
Lloyd, Euan xx–xxi
Lloyd, Ian 520
Lloyd, John 332
Loach, Ken 152, 621
local government 232–3, 579–85, 586
Logan, Nick 288
Lomax, Rachel 177
London 6, 577–8
borough councils 586
Brixton 509–14, 521, 524–5, 604–5, 649
Chelsea Barracks bombing 572, 574–5, 591
County Hall 585–6, 587
docks 675–6
industry 675–6
Isle of Dogs 675
Limehouse 412
New Cross 500–503
Southall 516–17, 523, 638, 649
terrible restaurants 128–30
London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) 675–6
London Labour Briefing 578, 586, 588
London Marathon 62
London School of Economics 334, 477
London Transport 593–5, 692
Londonderry 558
‘The Lonel
iness of the Long-Distance Runner’ (Sillitoe) 626
Longbridge car plant 303–7, 314–15, 318, 319–20, 322–3, 326
Louis, John 654
‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ (Joy Division) 252
Lovenduski, Joni 64
Low, Robert 212
Lowe, Ted 484, 487, 489, 494
Lowry, Suzanne 74–5
Luce, Richard 742, 745
Lufthansa Terminal 300
Lukowiak, Ken 762, 764, 793, 794, 816, 817, 818, 828
Lymeswold cheese 135–7
Lynch, Kevin 569
Lyndon, Neil 493–4
Mac (Stanley McMurtry) cartoons 244, 567, 836
McAlpine, Alistair 36
McCartney, Paul 245
McCloskey, Liam 569
McCluskey, Andy 282, 299, 398–9
McCreesh, Raymond 568
McDonald, Ian 795, 799–800
McDonald, Trevor 503
McDonald’s xxiv, 133–4
Robert Greenwood’s birthday party 134
McDonnell, Joe 569
McDonnell, John 589, 592
McElvoy, Anne 162
McElwee, Alice 589
McElwee, Thomas 589
McEnroe, John 488
McGahey, Mick 826
McGeown, Pat 569
McGhee, Frank 207, 208
MacGregor, Ian 153, 308
McGuinness, Martin 571
McIlvanney, Hugh 209, 211, 217, 223, 634–5, 641
McIntosh, Andrew 579–80
Mackay, Dougal 590
McKay, Peter 839
MacKenzie, Kelvin 588, 772–3, 775
McKenzie, Robert 432
McKeown, Laurence 569
McLaren, Malcolm 287
McMahon, Kit 269–70
McManus, Mick 635
McMenemy, Lawrie 86
Macmillan, Harold 7–8, 33, 47, 460, 658
McMillan, James 309
McNair-Wilson, Michael 437
McNally, Tom 736
McNee, Sir David 502, 588
McNeil, Maureen 724
MacSwiney, Terence 563
‘Madam Medusa’ (UB40) 475
Madness 21
Madrid 214
MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) 134
Maguire, Frank 565
Maiden Erlegh School 60–61
Mail on Sunday 70
Majorca 165–6
Malcolm, Fiona 128
Malvinas see Falkland Islands
Manchester 252–3, 402, 466
Moss Side 517, 521, 523
Manchester United FC 218–19
Mandelson, Peter 603
Manning, Basil 505
To the Manor Born xxiii, 84–6
Mantel, Hilary 79
manufacturing 16–17, 93, 256, 261–2, 267, 310, 437, 466, 659, 672–4, 711
Margolis, Jonathan 642
Marks, Vic 634
Marks & Spencer 63, 123, 124, 128, 701
Markstein, George xxi
Marlow, Tony 789
Marnoch, Alexander 525
Marquand, David 44, 338, 362, 431
Marsh, Ian Craig 282
Marsh, Rodney 640
Marsh, Stephen 182
Martínez de Hoz, José Alfredo 205
Marx, Karl 578
Marxism Today 44, 160, 262, 316, 335, 338, 341
masculinity xxiv, 72–3, 79, 220–21, 472, 635, 678
Mason, Roy 480, 562–3
Mass Observation Project xxix–xxx see also individual correspondents
Americans 391
‘big freeze’ of 1981–2 702
Christmas 694–6, 697
debt 697
EEC 168–9
Falklands War 759, 764, 766–7, 793, 798–9, 800, 825–6, 831–2, 844
food 118–20, 121, 123, 125, 130
holidays 165
homes 21, 22–3, 24, 28
housework 72–3
leisure 19–20, 165
Right to Buy 234–6
royal wedding 605–7
supermarkets 121, 123, 701–2
trade unions 155–6
unemployment 481, 483
Massiter, Cathy 405
materialism 22, 37–8
Mathers, Joanne 570–71
Le Matin 305
Maze Prison 562
Meade, James 415, 452
Medium Term Financial Strategy see MTFS
Meibion Glyndŵr 553–4
Melody Maker 279, 281, 287, 288, 290–91, 294–5, 296
Menéndez, Mario Benjamin 740, 815, 826
Menkes, Suzy 64, 618
Menswear 617
Meo, Tony 497
MEPs 169
meritocracy 428–9
Methven, John 156
Metro (car) see Austin Metro
Metropolitan Police 340, 507–8, 510, 524, 588–9
Meyer, Sir Anthony 802–3, 804
MI5 317, 404, 405
Micros in Schools 717
Microvitec 724–5
microwave cookery 125–6
middle classes
Barratt homes 29
as Bennite enthusiasts 339, 557
CND 401
computers 726, 728–9
Falklands War 770
homes 22–3
Gary Kemp as recruit to 298
Marks & Spencer 701
mortgage tax relief 240
‘Nooves’ 618
retrochic 617
rock critics 287–8
sandwiches 127
and SDP 416, 426, 428
in sitcoms 686
and Thatcher, Margaret 52–3, 55, 105, 479
The Middle Ground (Drabble) 22, 677
Middlebrook, Martin 740, 793
Midnight’s Children (Rushdie) xxiii
The Mighty Micro 712
Militant Tendency 339
Milk Marketing Board 134
Millar, Ronald 32, 34, 56–7, 267, 269, 435, 460, 648–9, 650–51, 795
Miller, Jonathan 335
Millichip, Bert 216
Milligan, Spike 324, 771
Milligan, Stephen 142
Milton Keynes 682–3, 699
mime artists
New Romantic 285
vegetarian 122
Minder xxiii, 312
mineral water 130–31
miners 436–7, 541, 841
Mitchell, Austin 44, 96, 341, 342, 343, 362, 379, 382, 426, 427, 537
Mitterrand, François 81, 110, 137, 178, 180, 444–5, 457–8, 581, 778
mock-Georgian front doors 238–9
Mole, Adrian
father is made redundant 461, 472
mother is sucked into feminism 58, 71–2
overtly political fruit 336–7
punk 280
seismic shock of SDP 417
Thatcher, Margaret 31, 39
views on nuclear war 408
views on Royal Wedding 607
Molina Pico, Enrique 793
Molloy, John T. 59
Momentum 344
monarchy 600, 606–7
monetarism 95–8, 451–4, 660, 663
Monetary Base Control 106, 270, 703
monetary policy 105, 259, 438, 455
money supply 94, 95–6, 97, 103, 110, 195, 197, 264, 265, 271, 703
Moonraker (film) 66
Moore, Charles
armed forces 832–3
Carrington, Peter 171
Foot, Michael 550–51
house prices 242–3
Millar, Ronald 57
MTFS (Medium Term Financial Strategy) 196
Owen, David 413
Reagan, Ronald 446
Right to Buy 242
riots 524
Thatcher, Margaret
Clark’s attraction to 57
Falklands War 783, 785, 832–3
The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst) 34
man-management 651
romantic sense of history 49
star quality
34
swearing 41
women’s equality 77–8
trade unions 145
Moore, Dudley 624
Moore, Jeremy 813, 816–17, 821, 823
Moore, Patrick 771
Moore, Roger, raises eyebrow 66
Moorhouse, Geoffrey 254
morality 685–6
Morecambe 164
Morgan, Kenneth 345
Morley, Paul 281, 295
Moroder, Giorgio 281
Morrell, Frances 352, 370, 538–9
Morris, Jan 603
Morrison, Charles 651
Morrison, Danny 598
Morrison, Peter 144
Morrisons 694
mortgages 70, 72, 102, 105, 197, 235, 237, 240, 244, 614, 696
Moss, Basil 504–5
Moss, Jon 296
Moss Side 517, 521, 523
Mossop, James 207
Mount, Ferdinand
economists 453
Falklands War 768
head of Number 10 Policy Unit 705
Joseph, Sir Keith 313
Prior, Jim 145
SDP 428
Thatcher, Margaret
comic aspects 34–5
heroism 54
lack of empathy 55
morality 50
patronizing of 190
relaxation 38
rudeness 42
Mount Harriet 817, 818
Mount Longdon 817, 818
Mount Tumbledown 818–19
Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl xviii, 560–61
Mountjoy, Doug 486
Moynihan, Colin 184
MTFS (Medium Term Financial Strategy) 97, 195–7, 264, 275
MTV 300
Muesli Belt 335–6
Mugabe, Robert 171
Mulley, Fred 390
Mullin, Chris 373, 529–31, 546
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop 399
Murdoch, Rupert 434
Murphy, Pat 226
Murray, Charles Shaar 279–80
Murray, James 618
Murray, Len 153–4, 156, 273
Murrell, Adrian 639
Nallon, Steve 78
Nally, Michael 523
Napier, Oliver 565
Nastase, Ilie 488
National Coal Board 436–7
National Enterprise Board 709–10, 724
National Salute to the Falklands Task Force from the British Theatre 842
National Trust 617
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) 436, 541, 841
National Union of Public Employees see NUPE
National Union of Students see NUS
National Union of Teachers 60
nationalism 167, 346, 554–6
nationalized industries 141, 143, 312, 314, 324
NATO 363, 388, 389
Naughton, John 335–6, 337
Neal’s Yard 128
Neave, Airey xvi, 80, 560
Negus, Dick 420
Neild, Robert 451–2
Nelson, Lesley 122
Neuberger, Julia 415
New Cross fire 501–3
New Romantics xxiii, 282, 290–300, 398, 420, 614, 694
New Scientist 716, 717
New Sounds New Styles 289
New Statesman 508, 798
New Year sales 695–7
New York Times xviii, 10–11, 291
New Zealand 778
Newbrain computer 718
Newbury 391–2, 681