Bolton 23, 157, 676
Bradford 679
consumerism 699
council housing 245–6, 249
Fort Beswick estate, Manchester 249
furnishings 23
industrial decline 676, 679–80
liberal utopianism 332
on racism 506
Sunderland 245–6, 471, 472–3, 506
tower blocks 247
trade unions 157
unemployment 471, 472–3, 482
Wigan 679
working-class life 679–80
Searchlight 506–7
seaside holidays 164–5
Selby, Vera 499
self-employment 68–9
Serle, Chris 721
services sector xxiv, 17, 261, 682, 723
Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 70, 499
Sex Pistols 280, 287, 292
sexual harassment 596
shabbiness 6
Shackleton, Ernest 740
‘Shaddap You Face’ (Dolce) 291
Shann, Rosalie 63
Shapely, Peter 248
Shaw, Roy 578–9
Sheffield 233, 582–5
Sheffield, HMS 794–9, 802
Sheffield Wednesday FC 213–14
Sheppard, David 182
Sherbourne, Stephen 89
Sherman, Alfred 48, 89, 147–8, 705
shipbuilding 558
Shipley, Peter 401
Shirley, John 809
Shirley, Stephanie 69
shop stewards 311, 314–15, 316
shopping 693–7, 698–702
shopping malls 699–700
longest lavatory wall in Europe 253
Shore, Peter 170, 368, 374, 375, 376, 431, 534–5, 599, 736
Shulman, Milton 97
Shulman, Nicola 613
Signing Off (UB40) 475
Silkin, John 361, 374, 376, 539, 541, 543, 545–6
Sillitoe, Alan 625, 771
Simpson, Bob 138–9
Simpson, John 80–81, 175
Sinclair, Clive xxiii, 708, 709–11, 713, 718–19, 720, 723–4, 725, 727, 729–30
Sinn Fein 571–3, 598
Sir Galahad, RFA 816, 829
Sirs, Bill 146–7, 152
Skelton, Noel 230
skinheads 220–21
Skinner, Dennis 201, 703
slacks, looking super in 61
Sloane Rangers 611–12, 619
smart technology 27
Smash Hits 278, 282, 288
Smith, David 196, 262–3, 686
Smith, Delia 19, 123
Smith, Geoffrey (columnist) 275
Smith, Geoffrey (gardener) 19
Smith, Harvey 635
Smith, Ian 171
Smith, John 750, 751, 755
Smith, Joyce 62
Smith, Mel 493
smoking 129
snooker xv, 484–99
Snow, Peter 801
Soames, Christopher, Baron 87, 190, 652, 655–6, 658
Soames, Rupert 613
Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) 566
Social Democratic Party see also Gang of Four; Gang of Three; SDP–Liberal Alliance
Benn, Tony 538
by-elections 419, 429–32
Clark, Alan 436
conference 1981 432
Conservative Party 419
Crosby by-election 665–7
Croydon North West by-election 664–5
EEC 361
fail to win support of the Human League 420
Gilmour, Sir Ian 660
Gow, Ian 653
hand-job merchants 667
Labour Party, defections from 651
launch 419–21
leadership 422–3
Limehouse Declaration 411, 412–14, 424, 425, 435–6
lounge lizards 427
manifesto 421
marketing 421–2
media creation 427
meritocrats 428–9
opinion polls 421, 422, 432, 705–6
Volvo people 428
Warrington by-election 429–32, 651
social security 468–9
socialism 340–42, 425
SodaStream 684
Soft Cell 291, 659
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 836
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence) 676
Sony 283
Sony Walkman 301–2
Sounds 281, 286, 287, 290, 297, 525
sources xxix–xxxi
South Africa 444
South Georgia 731, 740–42, 743, 744–5, 783–4, 785, 787–8
South Yorkshire 149–50, 582
and making of Sebastian Coe 626
‘Socialist Republic of’ 403, 584–5, 593
Southall 516–17, 523, 638, 649
Southampton 414
Southern Thule 734, 741
Southwood, Angela 553
Southwyck House 249–50
‘Souvenir’ (OMD) 299
sovereign wealth funds 257–8
Soviet Union 179–86, 383–8, 389, 405, 632, 778
Space Invaders xxx, 522, 716–17
Spain 732, 778
Spandau Ballet xxiii, 286, 290, 291, 292, 294, 296
Spare Rib 59
Spark, Muriel 771
Sparkbrook, Birmingham 503
Sparkes, Jayne 285
Sparkhill, Birmingham 247
Speccy Nation (Whitehead) 709
Special Patrol Group (SPG) 340, 511
Specials xxiii, 297, 475, 525
Spectator 52, 55, 365, 413–14, 428, 453, 834
Spencer, Lady Diana see Diana, Princess of Wales
spices 121
Spinners 535
Spitting Image 78, 164, 716
sponsorship 137, 299, 492
Spufford, Francis 725
SS-20 missiles 389
‘Stand Down Margaret’ (Beat) 297, 476
Stanley (Port Stanley) 731–2, 755–6, 819–20, 821
Star 403
‘Starman’ (Bowie) 291
Stasi 405
stately homes 5
Stayt, David 58–9
Steel, David 359, 365, 414, 426, 432–3
prepares for government 433
steel industry 138–41, 146–53, 160–62, 554, 673–4, 688–9
steel strike (1980) 146–52
Steeltown (Big Country) 161
Stephens, Caroline 648
Stephenson, Hugh 430
Stewart, Graham 258
Stewart, Rod 154, 281, 295
Stirling, David xix
Stock, Aitken and Waterman 296
Stock Exchange 68
Stoke 674
Stokes, John 743
Stowe, Ken 33
Strange, Steve 282–3, 289, 290, 294
Strauss, Norman 89, 143–4
street parties 604, 605
Street-Porter, Janet 286
Streisand, Barbra 281
Strevens, Barry 40–41, 113
strikes 142–3, 145–52, 158, 160, 308, 315, 317–18, 436
Stuart, Moira 503
students 333–4
Sturridge, Charles 616
Sudjic, Deyan 699
Suez crisis 7, 432, 752, 759, 838
Falklands comparisons 753, 760, 768, 776, 798, 838
suicide 469–70, 472–3, 828
Summer, Donna 281
Sumner, Bernard 252
Sun
Benn, Tony 540, 773
Budget of 1981 449, 451
Daily Mirror Falklands War coverage 802
Diana, Princess of Wales 610
EEC budget 174
Falklands War 753, 757, 757, 772–5, 789, 801, 825
BBC coverage 802
Belgrano sinking 794
Goose Green, Battle of 814
‘GOTCHA’ headline 794
San Carlos, Battle of 811
Sheffield, HMS 798
South Georgia 787
‘STICK IT UP YOUR JUNTA’ 773–4
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nbsp; Foot, Michael 377, 549
Foreign Office 758
gay rights 590
GLC women’s committee 597
Headingley test match 1981 638
Labour Party 343, 350
Livingstone, Ken 576, 580, 588, 589, 590, 592, 592–3, 598
Panorama 803, 804
riots 501, 509, 519
Runcie, Robert 843
SDP 427, 428
seven tribes of Britain 293
Strevens, Barry 113
Thatcher, Margaret
appearance 62
cooking 117
diet 63
potential replacements for 661
Thatcherism 52
Warrington by-election 432
Whitehouse, Mary 86
Williams, Shirley 430
Sunday Express 670
Benn, Tony 540, 544
EEC budget 177
England football team 207
hunger strikes 570
Moscow Olympics 183
rejoices at existence of Margaret Thatcher 114, 198–9
riots 509, 521
Soviet Union 388
spring 1982 706
trade unions 150
Williams, Shirley 63–4
Sunday Mirror 496, 610
Sunday People 627, 636
Sunday Telegraph 424, 487, 765
Sunday Times
bright young things 612–13
crusade of national conversion 98
economic recovery of UK 263
Edwardes, Michael 326
Falkland Islands 731
Falklands War 831
Foot, Michael, sued by 376
Labour Party deputy leadership election 1981 540
love in London 619
microcomputer revolution 716
Milton Keynes shopping centre 699
most prosperous towns in Britain 685
riots 523
West Midlands 674
Sunderland 245–6, 328, 469, 471, 472–3, 506
supermarkets 700–701
‘supply-side’ theory 444
‘sus’ laws 508
Swan & Edgar 702
Swift, Charlie 685
synthesizers 282, 301
tailors 11, 551
‘Tainted Love’ (Soft Cell) 291, 659
Tamworth 681
Tatler 613–14, 615
Taunton 680–81
tax exiles 99–100
tax reduction 94, 99–101, 103, 104
Taylor, Andy 295
Taylor, Dennis 490
Taylor, Sir Frank 271
Taylor, John 295, 296
Taylor, Peter 317, 564
Taylor, Robert 159, 664
tea 118, 120
Tebbit, Norman 87, 158–9, 325, 468, 522, 656–8, 670, 767–8
bicycle-riding father 663
as a polecat 656
television
adverts 305
Christmas 692–3
comedy 332
commercials 75
Falklands War 799
Iranian Embassy siege xvii–xviii
Royal Wedding 605
sales of 25
Welsh language 555–7
Tenko 67, 690
tennis 488
terrorism xvi, 557–8, 559–61, 572, 598, 693 see also IRA
Terry and June 686
textile industry 659
TGWU (Transport and General Workers’ Union) 156–7, 158, 159, 318, 374, 543, 545–6
That Was the Week That Was 332
Thatcher, Denis xix, 76, 171, 446–7, 559, 670, 732, 801, 812 see also Private Eye
Thatcher, Margaret xxii
admits she is not as kind as Jesus 43
appearance 61–2, 63–4
arguing 36, 42
armed forces 777
BBC 802, 803
beliefs about xxiv–xxv
borrowing 696–7
British industry, competitiveness of 272
Budget of 1981 438–43, 450
Cabinet 86–8, 652–9
Callaghan, Jim 372
Chariots of Fire 624
childcare 76
Christmas 1979 113
clears up dog excrement 41
comic aspects 34
Communism 179
computers 716, 723–4
concerned at prospect of being jerked off 35
confidence, lack of 40
Conservative Party
conference 1980 267–9
conference 1981 662–4
membership 47
risk of revolt 661, 669
conspiracies against 460
contempt for consensus 79–80, 660
cooking 116–18
correspondence 42–3, 206
Cruise missiles 390
crusade of national conversion 98
cries 40, 783, 795, 816, 822
cries with laughter 34
dancing 446
defence spending 388–91
directness 42
disappointment in 661
domesticity 75–7
dramatic skills 34
duty 42–3
economy 9, 194, 198, 263
EEC 169–70, 173, 178–9
egalitarianism 612
emotionalism 39–41, 795–6
exchange controls 109, 110
Falkland Islands 734–5, 738, 740, 779–80
Falklands War 753, 755, 759, 784–6, 797, 821–3, 832–3, 839–40
‘Falklands factor’ 835–6
recapture of South Georgia 786
tears after Bluff Cove air attacks 816
tears after Sheffield sinking 795
War Cabinet 776–7
as war leader 789, 805–6, 807, 833–4
femininity 78–83
first arrival at Downing Street as Prime Minister 31–3, 56
first kiss 38
flirts with parrot 647–8
flirts with Simpson, John 80–81
food 116–18
on Foot, Michael 550
foreign policy 170–71
good housekeeping 52–3
as grocer’s daughter 172
Grantham 53
grudges 40
Heath, Edward, attack by 274–5
hideous birthday cake 269
and history 49–50
holiday in Switzerland 263–4
home ownership 30, 230–31
Hoskyns on failings of 650–51
as housewife 38, 116–18
imagination, lack of 36–7
imagines an opera about herself 57
inequality 188
inflation 94, 696
insists you can see the moon and the stars from Spalding 37
inspects an enormous tool 35
interest rates 102, 105
Iranian Embassy siege xvi–xix
Jewish advisers 89
kindness 40–41, 42–3
Kipling, Rudyard 789–90
kisses Kevin Keegan 207
knickers 63
as a Liberal in disguise 45–7
love of coronation chicken 118
love of Liverpool FC 206
love of snooker 496–7, 499
MacGregor, Ian 153
materialism 37–8
Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) 196
misogynistic abuse of 82–3
morality 50–52
Moscow Olympics 181–6
as ‘Mrs Thatcher’ xxx–xxxi
national decline 48–9
as national figurehead 54–6, 833–4
national pride 837–8
nicknames 82–3
as ‘Northern chemist’ 614
Northern Ireland 559–61
‘not for turning’ 269
optimism 434–5
‘ordinary people’ 52–3
parsimoniousness 37–8
patriotism xxvi–xxvii, 49–50, 789–90, 833–4
peace movement 405
pers
onas 33–5
philistinism, or lack of 36
political appointments 86–90
popularity 54, 459–60, 648, 661–2, 669, 705, 789, 834–5
populism xxvi–xxvii, 52
pragmatism 47–8
as Queen Bee 77
reading 35
Reagan, Ronald 443–7
regards ideas as so much Black Forest gateau 36
regards relaxing for its own sake as deranged 38
rejects idea of electrocuting Heath with cattle prod 189
religion 43, 51–2
Right to Buy 230–31, 243
riots 518
risk-averseness 101
romance with Emlyn Hughes 206–7
rudeness 41–2, 79–80
and SAS xix–xx
as Servalan 80
sex appeal 81–2
Sinclair, Clive 723–4
slacks, would look super in 61
sleep 39–40
smoothness, or lack of 89
sounds like a suburban estate agent’s wife 33
steel strike 151–2
talks to people as if their dogs have died 33
tantrums 265–6
tastes 35–6, 496
tax reduction 99–100, 101
telephones James Bond 647
terrorism 559–60
trade unions 144
as transformative xxiv
Turin football riot 209
unemployment 475–9, 482
United States, trip 1981 443–7
unlikely to invest in a pair of Levi’s 62
voice 33
walk 34
weight 62–3
West Germany 169
whips herself into a gigantic lather 151
as the Wizard of Oz 35
as a woman pretending to be a man 78–83
women’s rights 76–8
work ethic 38–9
works herself into a blazing fury 264
Thatcher Foundation xxix
Thatcherism 43–54, 78–9, 341
Theroux, Paul
amateurism and uncompetitiveness of Britain 11
bookshops 19
Butlin’s 164
Falklands War 793, 795, 800–801
hotels 5–6
London 6, 11
national decline 519
national self-deprecation 12
Northern Ireland 558–9
poverty 18
punks 280
racism 505
Scottish nationalism 555
steam-train enthusiasts 284
Wales, arson attacks 554
Wigan 687
Theseus and the Monetaur 693
The Third World War (Hackett) 388
Third World War, books about 388, 397
Thomas, Christopher 559
Thomas, Hugh 835
Thomas, Mike 420
Thomas, R. S. 402
Thompson, Alan 637
Thompson, Daley 185, 491, 628–32, 642
denies being black 631
doesn’t give a damn who’s going to Moscow 184
Thompson, Dorothy 402
Thompson, E. P. 390, 394, 400, 404, 405
Thompson, Julian 762, 813, 833
Thorburn, Cliff xv, 491
Thorne, David 561
Thorneycroft, Peter, Baron 435, 460
Three Tuns, Eastwood 676
Time Out 332–3
The Times
affluence 698
Argentina 738–9
Who Dares Wins Page 142