by Alwyn Turner
here took the advice – Tynan, Diaries p. 248; swing to the right – Benn, Against the Tide p. 386; Labour Party – Freeman, The Benn Heresy p. 72; rejection of submission – Red Flag 11 July 1975; airline pilot – Norman Tebbit (pc); my own mug – Benn, Conflicts of Interest p. 9; ham sandwiches – Shirley Williams (pc)
here inextricably linked – Benn, Against the Tide p. 73; my stomach turn – ibid. p. 473; to be careful – ibid. p. 474; It is important – Daily Telegraph 29 December 2005; £5 note – Times 1 January 2002; de Gaulle himself – Independent 24 June 2003
here a record number – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 34
here European federal state – Times 1 January 2001; Last October – ibid. 9 June 1973; It then seemed – Thatcher, The Path to Power p. 210; taking our bat – Pimlott, Harold Wilson p. 659
Part Three: Sense of Doubt: 1976–1979
here British mistake – TV Smith, ‘The Great British Mistake’ (Twist & Shout Music, 1978); Life in England – Jarman, Jubilee; If I didn’t laugh – News of the World 9 October 1977
11: The Callaghan Years
here unnecessary disputes – Sunday Telegraph 2 January 1977; let us take – Sharples/Drummond, ‘Stand Up and Be Counted’ (Chappell & Co, 1977); I can see – Chappell, Rising Damp, ‘The Good Samaritans’ 1977
here I can’t conceive – Sampson, The Changing Anatomy of Britain p. 91; When I think – Benn, Against the Tide p. 546
here year too soon – Jefferys, Anthony Crosland pp. 194–5; great pleasure – Benn, op. cit. p. 549; Prime minister – Powell, Tony Benn p. 70
here farmyard – Michie & Hoggart, The Pact p. 88; Jim’s interest – ibid. p. 84; We don’t want – Benn, Office Without Power p. 320; paid the price – Times 15 April 1976; elder statesman – Donoughue, Downing Street Diary p. 694; party fixer – Benn, Against the Tide p. 553
here fifty-two – Heffer, Never A Yes Man p. 153; a young man – Benn, op. cit. pp. 561–2; socialist government – Callaghan, Time and Chance p. 269; One day – Hattersley, Who Goes Home? p. 189; fifth of five – www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30985; year for Britain – Times 21 August 1975
here proles – Dash, Good Morning, Brothers! p. 138; drift towards chaos – Lean, Rebirth of a Nation? pp. 15–16; no intention – ibid. pp. 25–6
here stunned – Healey, The Time of My Life p. 397; parliamentary democracy – Daily Telegraph 8 January 1977; We were not elected – Freeman, The Benn Heresy p. 78; This budget – Drower, Neil Kinnock p. 54; used to think – Callaghan op. cit. pp. 425–6
here socialism in one country – Campbell, Roy Jenkins p. 141; The markets – Radice, Friends & Rivals p. 254
here the housewife – Callaghan op. cit. p. 447; 10 million – Clutterbuck & Crainer, The Decline and Rise of British Industry p. 24; final good sense – Hall, Diaries p. 312
here taking steroids – Independent 14 December 1998; Between 1978 – news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4294709.stm
here mismanagement – Times 24 April 1975; industrial disputes – Benn, op. cit. p. 287; perfectly respectable – Times 20 October 1977; old-fashioned – Daily Mail 7 September 1977
here Leyland’s models – Richard Porter, Crap Cars (BBC Books, London, 2004); poetic plonk – Sun 7 February 1977; days of disillusion – Sunday Telegraph 6 February 1977
here more schizophrenic – Anderson, The Diaries p. 341
here Saltley Gate – Routledge, Scargill p. 102; blank pages – see, for example, Sun 1 July 1977; more like Germany – Hall op. cit. p. 303; can’t portray – Daily Mail 7 September 1977; respect for values – Daily Telegraph 8 January 1977
here We were a bit – Smith, Big Cyril pp. 172–3
here we have removed – News of the World 2 October 1977; to wound – Smith op. cit. p. 216; more harm – Sun 5 May 1977
here psychiatric suicide – Stonehouse, My Trial p. 179; collapse – ibid. p. 75
here marvellous – ibid. p. 202; mad and sane – Nobbs, The Death of Reginald Perrin
here; Maudling – Nobbs, I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today p. 272; nihilism – Nobbs, Perrin p. 154
here Egbert Poltergeist – ibid. p. 264; Labour leadership – Benn, Conflicts of Interest p. 270; Education – Crosland, Tony Crosland p. 69; main thing – ibid. p. 278
here industrial relations – Foot, Loyalists and Loners p. 113; here was a situation – ibid. p. 115; skating – Austin Mitchell (pc); full employment – Benn, Conflicts of Interest p. 227; Jan Hildreth – Sun 4 January 1977; annoys me – Clarke, The Shadow of a Nation p. 176; the death rate – Daily Telegraph 2 February 1977
here Arthur Winn – Daily Mail 13 November 1973; civilized democracy – Sun 7 November 1977
here the future – Daily Mail 10 January 1978
12: Race
here The conception – Mark, In the Office of Constable p. 302; changed all right – Preston, Out, ‘It Must Be The Suit’ 1978; National Front – Kit Gould, ‘National Front’ (New Bristol Music, 1977)
here tremendous amount – Bourne, Black in the British Frame pp. 175–6; You’ve never seen – Onyeama, The Book of Black Man’s Humour p. 33
here it was funny – Sun 1 November 1977; popular song – The Black and White Minstrel Show p. 2
here lazy, ignorant – Times 30 August 1978; feeds on ignorance – Griffiths, Comedians p. 23
here dangerous and obsolete – Times 24 April 1972; rest of the world – Wharton, The Stretchford Chronicles p. 215; two people – Daily Mirror 28 January 1978; racial differences – Daily Telegraph 3 February 1977
here Andrew Huxley – Daily Mail 1 September 1977; every power – ibid. 2 September 1977; all been exposed – Bradbury, The History Man p. 158; famous victory – ibid. p. 235
here black bands – Eddie Amoo (pc); black musicians – Melody Maker 14 November 1970
here We don’t play – Harvey Hinsley (pc); a lot of them – Daily Mail 11 November 1971; ten years – Garland & Rowe, Racism and Anti-Racism in Football p. 39; Politics should be left – Guardian 26 January 1979
here That period – Callaghan, Time and Chance p. 269; official figures – News of the World 6 November 1977
here immigration – Thatcher, The Path to Power p. 212; one quarter – Johnson & Schoen, ‘The “Powell effect”’ p. 170; coloured policemen – Times 19 November 1970
here 1976 figures – Daily Telegraph 7 January 1977; sordid celebrations – Mark op. cit. p. 234; niggers – Elms, The Way We Wore p. 156; nursery rhymes – Times 7 January 1978
here eccentric – ibid. 9 January 1978
here This evening – Stonehouse, My Trial p. 180; appalled – News of the World 16 October 1977; Every year – Hiro, Black British, White British p. 290; Our people – Benn, Against the Tide pp. 587–8; nothing against blacks – Raphael, The Glittering Prizes p. 245; Union of Muslim Organizations – Daily Mail 6 September 1977
here start of the decade – Winder, Bloody Foreigners pp. 298, 305; fifth-column – Speight, Till Death Us Do Part, ‘Dock Pilfering’ 1972; tinned beef – James, Death of an Expert Witness p. 129; great amount – Hardy, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation p. 23; 2,967 complaints – Hiro op. cit. p. 221; Abdul Goni – Sun 5 May 1970
here because they spoke – Times 2 December 1971; dictator – Gillman & Gillman, Alias David Bowie pp. 426–7
here photomontage – Widgery, Beating Time p. 60; I think Enoch – Coleman, Survivor pp. 218–19
here He was probably – Rising Free Fanzine no. 3, c.1981; You could sense – Q November 1996; remote rival – Money, Margaret Thatcher p. 120; hot-eyed supporters – Sun 24 January 1977; Whether you detest – Daily Express 7 August 1976; Who needs the Parliament – Jones/Strummer, ‘Remote Control’ (Nineden, 1977)
here tens of thousands – Benn, Conflicts of Interest p. 345
here five thousand – Parris, Chance Witness p. 192; surveys showed – Winder op. cit. p. 307; Before my interview – Thatcher, op. cit. p. 408
here trying to do – Times 14 February 1977; a limit �
� Halcrow, Keith Joseph p. 121; party is depressed – Benn op. cit. p. 287
13: Fringes
here I had hoped – Leslie Duxbury, Coronation Street 29 November 1972; workers – Chappell, Rising Damp, ‘Stand Up and Be Counted’ 1974; trendy ideas – Yuill, Hazell and the Menacing Jester p. 41; In 1951 – Leys, Politics in Britain p. 66; A people drilled – Stewart, Protest or Power? p. 119
here traditional values – Times 1 June 1977; little support – McIntosh, Challenge to Democracy p. 138; nationalism – Weight, Patriots p. 416; opinion poll – Daily Telegraph 2 February 1977
here Scottish pride – Daily Mail 16 January 1978; two parties – Daily Mirror 15 June 1970; stamps – Times 1 January 2004; I don’t want – Drower, Neil Kinnock p. 50
here linguistic racism – ibid. p. 51; We can aim – Ellis, The Celtic Revolution p. 84; Anti-Taffy – Drower op. cit. p. 51; two members – Lloyd, Mr Speaker, Sir p. 152
here hadn’t actually heard – Rendell, Some Lie and Some Die p. 29
here One assessment – Tomlinson, Left, Right p. 67; 15,000 members – Sun 16 April 1977; Making the GMC – Kogan & Kogan, The Battle for the Labour Party p. 74
here The GMC – Benn, Conflicts of Interest p. 565; witch hunts – Heffer, Never A Yes Man p. 181; piggy-back – Benn op. cit. p. 566; paid tribute – Benn, Against the Tide p. 21; bitterly attacked – ibid. p. 96
here Marxist – Times 9 April 1975; last bastion – Redgrave, To Be a Redgrave p. 200; intensely suspicious – Sunday Telegraph 6 April 1972; Plaid Cymru – Ellis op. cit. p. 91 p. 234 stage is set – News Line 7 April 1979; Joe Marino – Crick, Militant p. 167; serious threat – Mark, In the Office of Constable p. 299
here as bad – Daily Mail 6 September 1977; one bunch – Balham, Regan and the Bent Stripper p. 28; career in protest – Hill, An Advancement of Learning p. 155; My generation – ibid. p. 183
here David Watson – Daily Telegraph 7 February 1977; The danger – Crosland, Tony Crosland p. 229; Bishop of Exeter – Times 20 April 1972
here do not claim – Wurmbrand, Was Karl Marx a Satanist? p. 76
14: Sexualities
here fact – Clement & La Frenais, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, ‘No Hiding Place’ 1973; main reason – Sun 15 February 1977; prison – Chappell, Rising Damp, ‘Stage Struck’ 1977; workmates – Tom Robinson, ‘Glad to Be Gay’ (EMI Music Publishing, 1978)
here Bible – Roberts (ed.), Guinness Book of British Hit Singles p. 381; very proud – Q January 2007
here I’m not really – Daily Mirror 8 January 1972; light in the dark – Times 10 March 2007
here gayer – Freeman & Penrose, Rinkagate p. 119
here terrifying propensity – ibid. p. 238; Were you taken in – Times 19 March 1976; Shot any dogs – Smith, Big Cyril p. 186; Fleet Street – ibid. p. 211; the Tory press – Tynan, Diaries p. 327; the press – Benn, Against the Tide p. 533
here What’s the similarity – Palin, Diaries p. 520; I can’t see – Freeman & Penrose op. cit. p. 351; a fraud – Chester, Linklater & May, Jeremy Thorpe p. 359; a scrounger – Cook, Tragically I was an Only Twin p. 275
here increasingly difficult – Times 22 August 1977; I am gay – ibid. 28 September 1977; you are open – ibid. 1 October 1977; married couples – Daily Mail 10 January 1978; sickness of society – ibid. 14 January 1978; I cannot imagine – Daily Mirror 7 January 1978
here Most women – Newman, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire p. 212
here old-fashioned – ibid. p. 226; most extravagant – Sunday Telegraph 6 February 1977; a man’s need – Pertwee, Together, paperback blurb; He was dressed – James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman p. 136
here all grown men – Ullerstam, The Erotic Minorities p. 69; sexual deprivation – ibid. p. 74; too severe – Sun 9 February 1977; eighteen-year-old man – ibid. 11 February 1977; thirty-nine-year-old – ibid. 12 February 1977; behave sensibly – ibid. 17 February 1977
here female teacher – Daily Mail 1 September 1977; Jeremy Sandford – Sun 15 February 1977; If a child – News of the World 4 September 1977; stinkbombs – Daily Mail 20 September 1977; rational discussion – Times 30 August 1977
here furtive network – Sun 11 November 1977; We know – Times 10 October 1977; crime against innocence – Daily Mail 6 September 1977; matter of great regret – Daily Mirror 5 January 1978
here This poem – Guardian 11 July 2002; the movement – News of the World 17 July 1977; I did what I did – The Late Show, BBC2, 1994
15: Crisis
here Rape and murder – Paul Weller, ‘“A” Bomb in Wardour Street’ (And Son Music, 1978); By all accounts – Waugh, Another Voice p. 50; beat the bastards – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 157; productivity – Clutterbuck & Crainer, The Decline and Rise of British Industry p. 25
here humiliating – Times 7 July 1977; union leaders – Benn, Against the Tide p. 674; good news – Palin, Diaries p. 469; poll by MORI – Hain, Political Strikes p. 87
here It mustn’t happen – Daily Mirror 14 January 1978
here audience was frightful – Williams, Diaries p. 541; Surrey – Sun 2 November 1977; disingenuous – News of the World 16 October 1977; subtle argument – Benn, Conflicts of Interest p. 230
here only difference – Daily Mail 10 January 1978; did not endear – Jones, Union Man p. 328; fifty thou – Yuill, Hazell and the Menacing Jester p. 120; North London – News of the World 7 August 1977; want to encourage – Daily Mail 4 March 1975
here grass is greener – Mark, In the Office of Constable p. 147; should be sorry – Daily Mail 21 November 1973; aim to teach – News of the World 14 August 1977; essential tools – Callaghan, Time and Chance p. 411; peak year – Daily Mirror 17 January 1978
here 29,000 men – Daily Express 6 August 1976; Inland Revenue – Paytress, The Rolling Stones Off the Record p. 196; more receptive – Daily Mail 5 March 1975; disillusioned – Biddu (pc)
here no point – Corbett, England Expects p. 306; run the risk – Callaghan op. cit. p. 516; beer freezing – Daily Telegraph 15 January 1979
here Individual greed – ibid. 2 January 1979; able to get back – ibid. 9 January 1979; cannibalism – ibid. 12 January 1979; brink of a disaster – Sun 9 January 1979; Suntanned – ibid. 11 January 1979
here portrayed him – Yarwood, Impressions of My Life p. 140; Frank Muir – Daily Mail 24 December 1973; Dimbleby – Sun 25 January 1974; very wrong – Stewart, Protest or Power? p. 19
here OUR DISCONTENT – Evening Standard 6 February 1974; nightmare – Shore, Leading the Left p. 118; maintenance workers – Tebbit op. cit. p. 159; Patrick Chesterman – Daily Telegraph 7 February 1979
here uncollected rubbish – Palin op. cit. p. 533; greed and anarchy – Hall, Diaries p. 407; BURY OUR DEAD – Daily Mail 1 February 1979; Sedgefield – Daily Telegraph 2 February 1979; Our society – Sampson, The Changing Anatomy of Britain pp. 44–5; sheer viciousness – Tebbit op. cit. p. 161; Gallup poll – Daily Mail 12 February 1979; opinion polls – Daily Telegraph 1 February 1979
here MORI found – Daily Express 6 February 1979; less easy – Times 7 January 1978; essential liberties – Daily Telegraph 1 February 1979; Thatcher – Benn op. cit. p. 282; We’ve stumbled – Daily Mail 9 February 1979
here If anything – Dennis Skinner (pc); siege – Benn op. cit. p. 449; her troops – D’Arcy (ed.), Order! Order! p. 47; the manifesto – Benn op. cit. p. 492
here do not pretend – Times 5 April 1975; 1.3 million – Coates, The Crisis of Labour p. 71; Hendon – Clarke, The Shadow of a Nation p. 106
here crisis had changed – Shirley Williams (pc); we’re talking about – Herbert, The Spear p. 174; counter-revolution – Tony Benn (pc); humbug – Gilmour & Garnett, Whatever Happened to the Tories
here sensational – Corbett op. cit. p. 316
Outro: Farewell
here No one – margaretthatcher.org; stay silent – Mikardo, Back-Bencher p. 220; parable – Powell, No Easy Answers p. 110
here got into glam – Jonathan King (pc)
here Unchecked inflation – Times 14 September 1974; the smell of the Weimar Republic – Guardian 27 June 1972; saved Britain – Daily Mail 9 April 2013
here some sympathy – Benn, Conflicts of Interest p. 505
here side by side – ibid. p. 224
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