References

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So as you raise – News of the World 31 December 1979

I pointed – Blacker, Fixx p. 281

So who are they electing – Curtis, Atkinson, Elton & Lloyd, Blackadder p. 237

Intro: Eighties

here I was eighteen – Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful p. 205; almost a fact – Godfrey, A Decade of i-Deas p. 215

here always good for – Branson, Losing My Virginity p.387; it has been – Burton, Parallel Lives p.52; admires Sir Keith – Alvarado & Stewart, Made for Television p. 94

here Economics are the method – Hewison, Culture and Consensus p. 212; The economy had gone wrong – Thatcher, The Path to Power pp. 305–6; Britic – Jennings, The Paul Jennings Reader p. 264; Today has put – Osmond, The Divided Kingdom p. 25

here acquisitive individualism – Young, One of Us p. 526; the crowd – The Times 12 March 1982

here a liar – Engel & Morrison, The Sportspages Almanac 1991 p. 8; In my experience – Hornby, Fever Pitch p.141; this is a vicious era – Elms, The Way We Wore p.240

here in the pursuit – Private Eye, The Book of Wimmin p.74; views polarized – Hatton, Inside Left p. 106; there is virtually – Rentoul, Tony Blair p. 166; private interests – Jacobs & Worcester, We British p. 31

here an icon – Time 13 November 1989

here undermining the concept – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 p. 227

here the economic and social structure – Writers’ Monthly magazine, March 1987; Why do we need – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile pp.165–6; Production of movies – The Times 16 June 1990

here I don’t think – Walker, Icons in the Fire pp.119–20

Part One: Putting out Fire with Gasoline: 1979–83

here I see no chance – The Beat, ‘Stand Down Margaret’ (1980); I blame – Clement & La Frenais, ‘If I Were a Carpenter’, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983); The stews – Robert Holmes, ‘The Caves of Androzani’, Doctor Who (1984)

1: The First Thatcher Government

here It has always seemed – Banks, The Wasp Factory p. 62; Margaret Thatcher – Longford, Diary of a Year p. 27

here The absence – The Times 13 November 1979; How did she – Sun 13 October 1981

here she does like – Sunday Express 9 August 1976; One has to remember – Carpenter, Robert Runcie p. 258

here we in Britain – Longford op. cit. p. 10; she is so beautiful – Clark, Into Politics p. 147; Cette femme Thatcher – Young, One of Us p. 383; a psychotic killer – Townsend, Adrian Mole From Minor to Major p. 163; grimly visaged – Dexter, The Wench is Dead p. 19; Joyce Grenfell – Kingsley & Tibballs, Box of Delights p. 194

here we’ve got a corporal – Owen, Time to Declare p. 574; sulk made flesh – Pearce, The Senate of Lilliput p. 146; military loyalty – Ridley, My Style of Government p. 24;

here When I married – Watkins, A Conservative Coup p. 113

here homilies of housekeeping – Young op. cit. p. 147; a counter-revolution – Mitchell, Four Years in the Death of the Labour Party p. 15; an uncongenial blend – Critchley, Westminster Blues p. 99; used to think – Callaghan, Time and Chance p. 426; been misused – ibid. p. 427;

here at last – Daily Mail 2 October 1979

here Company profits – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 25; We did not promise – McFadyean & Renn, Thatcher’s Reign p. 27; The baby boom – Daily Mirror 2 January 1981; I could have wept – The Times 14 October 1980

here government action – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 114

here whom she regarded – Gilmour op. cit. p. 175; socialism was still – Thatcher, The Downing Street Years p. 306; council tenants – Campbell, Wigar Pier Revisited p. 32

here There are no fences – ibid. p. 45; because of its starkness – Young op. cit. p. 200; a Clockwork Orange society – Gilmour op. cit. p. 31; People are realizing – Sun 6 November 1980; ardent Heath-haters – Clark op. cit. p. 280–1

here articulate, but ineffectual – Cole, As It Seemed To Me p. 209; She’s had it – Amis, Letters p. 883; a brilliant exponent – Thatcher op. cit.p. p. 26; We are not so stubborn – Daily Mail 17 September 1980; a very much better position – Daily Mirror 2 January 1981

here the most delightful – Patrick Cosgrave in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 7 November 2009; Bringing down the rate – Keys, Thatcher’s Britain p. 2; spending too much – Daily Mail 15 September 1980; Mr Heath started – Daily Mirror 18 July 1979; waiting with bated breath – Thatcher op. cit.p. 122

here You know, Alan – Young op. cit. p. 215; Present policies – The Times 30 March 1981; I can do no better – www.margaretthatcher.org retrieved 15/1/2008; It is staggering – Sun 1 May 1981; clear favourite – Daily Mirror 16 January 1981

here Democracy cannot function – Chapple, Sparks Fly! p. 167; not dissatisfied – The Times 15 May 1980

here Benn is absolutely – Clark op. cit. p. 202; all those lovely – The Times 5 May 1983; I dare say – Daily Mirror 12 September 1981

here This country of ours – Bennett, Writing Home p. 110

here We knocked – Gittins, Top of the Pops p. 78; I cannot remember – Daily Mirror 10 September 1981; We are the best – Edworthy, The Second Most Important Job in the Country p. 159

here What a wonderful change – Daily Mail 2 April 1981

here Was this not – Clark op. cit. p. 247; Willie Whitelaw – Sun 14 October 1981

here influence Margaret – Goodman, From Bevan To Blair p. 245; a great prime minister – Selbourne, Left Behind p. 33; I argued – Daily Mirror 28 January 1981; She was ruthless – Dobbs, House of Cards p. 137; huffy – Thatcher op. cit. p. 151

here It was a childhood – Sun 9 October 1981; There was a time – The Times 12 September 1986

2: Comrades

here Our type – Pinner, There’ll Always Be an England p. 49; My father said – Townsend, Adrian Mole From Minor to Major p. 209; I have forgotten – Mortimer, Rumpole’s Last Case p. 116; It was not – Callaghan, Time and Chance p. 565

here Serves us bloody right – Mullin, A Very British Coup p. 66; consensus politicians – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 5

here Your representative – Edmund Burke, speech to the Electors of Bristol, 3 November 1774; I suppose like – Benn, The End of an Era p. 13; The big event – interview on DVD release of A Very British Coup; Having lost – Daily Mirror 6 July 1979

here will split in two – ibid. 27 July 1979; planted a time-bomb – Daily Mail 6 October 1979; I feel like – Pearce, Denis Healey p. 529; I come not to praise – Morgan, Michael Foot p. 373; why was there – Mitchell, Four Years in the Death of the Labour Party p. 40; There is no guarantee – Kogan & Kogan, The Battle for the Labour Party p. 69; It is easy – Morgan op. cit. p. 374; I hope next year – Daily Mail 4 October 1979

here We’ll come back – Benn, Conflicts of Interest p. 543; 635 vacancies – ibid. p. 545; To the weak-hearted – Pearce op. cit. p. 532; There are some – Radice op.cit. p. 287

here He is always trying – Strong, Diaries p. 404; The good fairies – Owen, Time to Declare p. 624; I am fed up – Benn, The End of an Era p. 17; a shadow – Daily Mail 4 February 1980; in the vain hope – Callaghan op. cit. p. 565; take the shine – Healey, The Time of My Life p. 466; took the shine – Radice, Friends & Rivals p. 280

here I was glad – Healey op. cit. p. 466; those exhilarating years – Livingstone, If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It p. 92; a competent – Benn op. cit. p. 30

here cloud cuckoo land – Owen op. cit. p. 450; He tells them – Longford, Diary of a Year p. 182; Personality clashes – Livingstone op. cit. p. 113; Politics is about – Benn op. cit. p. 171; sweet reason – Daily Express 10/6/1980; frequently unrepresentative – Davies, To Build a New Jerusalem p. 263

here We must not be afraid – Radice op. cit. p. 287; Some of us – Sun 2 October 1981; We used to have – Bradley, Breaking the Mould? p. 115; It almost seemed – Ashton, Red Rose Blues p. 211; power without responsibility – Mitchell op. cit. p. 63; active not passive – Benn op. cit. p. 68

here elderly Byron enthusiast – Lawson, Bloody Margaret p. 31

here experimental plane – Campbell, Roy Jenkins p. 206; much loved – Stewart, The History of The Times p. 79; born old – Sun 1 May 1981;

here something rather engaging – Sun 11 November 1980; an inspiring figure – ibid. 6 November 1980; The flavour – Longford op. cit.p. p. 24; to allow the block vote – Owen op. cit. p. 479

here calamitous outcome – Stephenson, Claret and Chips pp.185–6; a better yesterday – Owen op. cit. p. 536; needs to be said – Daily Mirror 22 January 1981

here I could tolerate – Neil, Full Disclosure p. 33; somewhat indecisive – The Times 10 February 1981

here It lists – Wharton, The Best of Peter Simple p. 20; they’re all worthy – Williams, Diaries p. 631; Our policy – Owen op. cit. p. 536; the sadness – Mitchell op. cit. p. 78; Pandora’s parents – Townsend, Adrian Mole From Minor to Major p. 157; It is a sad day – ibid. p. 163; the SDP remains – Sun 7 October 1981

here The Llandudno air – Owen op. cit. p. 526

here communism only gains – Pinner op. cit. p. 122; up to six – Sun 14 October 1981; Another loser – Daily Mirror 26 January 1981

here a pitcherfull – Pearce, Denis Healey p. 548; orgy of intolerance – Daily Mirror 22 September 1981; planned hooliganism – ibid. 24 September 1981; If he wins – Sun 28 May 1981; A cross on the ballot – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 130; MR BENN – Sun 22 May 1981

here Yes, I think – Hollingsworth, The Press and Political Dissent p. 56; People’s Democracy – ibid. p. 60; The Labour Party – O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better p. 67; those figures – Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful p. 119; The fact is – Daily Mirror 19 September 1981

here traitors – Seyd, The Rise and Fall of the Labour Left p. 136; a hell of a year – Drower, Neil Kinnock p. 91; It was a victory – The Times 28 September 1981; we are concerned – Benn op. cit. p. 185

here You’re not going – Steel, Against Goliath p. 228; a smart sensible coat – Morgan op. cit. p. 391; I sat next to him – Mitchell op. cit. p. 53

here We must look – The Times 4 December 1981

here an electoral disaster – Morgan op. cit. p. 422; a rather exotic – Doig, Westminster Babylon p. 104; male model’s flair – Hollingsworth op. cit. p. 141

here He’s created – Radice op. cit. p. 303

here If Healey – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 203; on an interim basis – Heffer, Never a Yes Man p. 176; What fools we were – Healey, Part of the Pattern p. 216; If I woke up – Livingstone op. cit. p. 179; so terrified – Longford op. cit.p. p. 28

3: Alternatives

here years of stagnation – Mayall, Mayer, Elton, The Young Ones; Make the most – George Michael & Andrew Ridgeley, ‘Wham Rap!’ (Sony Music Entertainment, 1982); Even our protests – Jarman, The Last of England

here sad and cynical – The Times, 10 December 1980; Good evening – Carpenter, That Was Satire that Was p. 229

here Heard about – Daily Mirror 14 July 1979; a 1988 survey – Kingsley & Tibballs, Box of Delights p. 23; strange survivor – The Times 17 October 1980

here its roots – Britton & Butterworth, Savoy Dreams p. 66; Jewish stories – Margolis, Bernard Manning p. xii; like a preacher – ibid. p. 128

here It was crowd control – The Times 26 October 1981; Alternative comedy – Harris, The Mother-in-Law Joke p. 3; What was said – Skinner, Frank Skinner p. 219; To these performers – Dawson, No Tears for the Clown p. 92

here For now their appeal – The Times 26 October 1981; In her hunger – Carpenter op. cit. p. 325

here best, brightest – The Times 11 May 1984; youngsters divide – Everett, You’ll Never Be 16 Again p. 147; SEVEN TRIBES – Sun 2/10/1981

here simply the first – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 145

here They want a reason – Rimmer, Like Punk Never Happened p. 50; A year ago – Daily Mail 12 October 1979; The music scene – George, Take It Like a Man p. 212

here physically sick – Staple, Original Rude Boy p. 210; Something nasty – Andy Hill/Pete Sinfield, ‘Land of Make Believe’ (RCA Music Ltd/Paper Music Ltd)

here Which part of it – Sunday Times 18 May 2008; Their complete control – Rimbaud, Shibboleth p. 303

here Russian troops – Julian MacQueen, ‘Domino Theory’ (Melodia, 1981); James Dean – Mark Jones, ‘Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Work’ published in Hard Lines: New Poetry and Prose, No.2 (Faber & Faber, 1985)

here in the end – Liverpool Echo, 1 October 1985; The basic principle – Gaunt, Undaunted p. 122; The Tories – Willgress, Stand Down Margaret; If the future – New Statesman, 22 November 2004

here It was slightly ironic – ibid.; In the long run – Strong, Diaries p. 248

here survey in 1989 – Sunday Times 29 October 1989; bad news – Longford, Diary of a Year pp.9–10; an English degree – Smith, Lost in Music pp.171–2; I can’t see – Mortimer, Titmuss Regained p. 39

here Gulliver had gone – Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood p. 142; first-class honours graduate – Levin, Speaking Up p. 240; the implication – The Times 20 September 1987; life’s misfits – Bellamy, The Secret Lemonade Drinker p. 120

here thought that he – Croft, You Have Been Watching p. 210; after experiencing – Lewisohn, Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy p. 605; If you are one – Tilbury & Bostock-Smith, Shelley p. 10; What sort of work – ibid. p. 46; Being on the dole – Walker, The Autobiography p. 276; You start asking – Barnard, A City of Strangers p. 189

here You and I – Lodge, Nice Work p. 311; I’ve got no – Smith, Don’t Leave Me This Way, p. 134; I don’t believe – Drabble, The Radiant Way p. 360; too publicly committed – James, Innocent Blood p. 28; increasingly petty – ibid. p. 27; with a sense – Mortimer, Summer’s Lease, p. 31

here Learned people – Murdoch op. cit. p. 247; his name had been – Mortimer, Paradise Postponed p. 17; Bloody good – Amis, Letters p. 870; I would not like – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 p. 578; she is not a conservative – ibid. p. 585; not a Tory newspaper – Sun 3 May 1979

here Less government – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 119; the same words – Young, One of Us p. 391; I notice now – Benn, The End of an Era p. 257; There was little interest – Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful pp.88–9

here There’s not too – Fenton, Scorched Earth p. 96

4: Resistance

here soon the red blood – Brown, Campbell, Campbell, Hassan, Travers, Falconer, Virtue, ‘Little by Little’ (Graduate, 1980); I come from – Ray Jenkins, ‘Lies and Liars’, Juliet Bravo (1981); Thatcher has been – Selbourne, Left Behind p. 51

here arranged marriage – Carpenter, Robert Runcie p. 223; it’s my son – Morgan, Michael Foot p. 334

here common to cry – Pearse & Matheson, Ken Livingstone p. 20; common problems of newlyweds – Macintyre, Mandelson p. 58; His victory – Sun 9 May 1981; my analysis – Carvel, Citizen Ken p. 14; If Labour – Livingstone, If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It p. 128; If London again – The Times 9 May 1981

here old white men – Seyd, The Rise and Fall of the Labour Left p. 138; This little Kremlin – Daily Mail 17 September 1980; Who would say – The Times 9 December 1981; You can predict – Wharton, The Best of Peter Simple p. 98; the next best thing – Pearse & Matheson op. cit.p. p. 93

here poor man’s Benn – Sun 18 May 1981; John the Baptist – Pearse & Matheson op. cit.p. 69; he was buggered – Livingstone op. cit. p. 163; Fucking newts – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 131; slugs and woodlice – Stewart, The History of The Times p. 80

here just criminals – Livingstone op. cit. p. 167; the conscience – Carvel op. cit. pp.96–7

here The point I was – The Times 14 October 1981; I have consistently – Carvel op. cit. p. 88; what I would say – ibid.p. p. 94

here only die once – The Times 20 August 1980; the biggest victory – The Times 18 September 1980; This channel – Whitelaw, The Whitelaw Memoirs p. 221; wholly false – Thatcher, The Downing Street Years p. 390; terrorist prisoners – ibid. p. 391

here Crime is crime – Daily Mail 22 April 1981; He chose – Young, One of Us p. 467; made up his mind – Longford, Diary of a Year p. 99

here For the media – Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful p. 112; Sefton has so far – Bennett, Writing Home p. 124; The IRA-loving – Hollingsworth, The Press and Political Dissent p. 76

here When those – Keys, Thatcher’s Britain p. 8; such widespread abuse – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 192; Unemployment in Britain – Sun 12 November 1980; Everyone I know – Millar, Milk, Sulphate & Alby Starvation p. 25

here What have we got left – The Times 28 August 1981; nowhere to go – Everett, You’ll Never Be 16 Again p. 152; I’m just living – Golding, Plangent Visions, 1980

here an alarming incidence – Rendell, Put on by Cunning p. 47

here Desperate businessmen – Daily Mirror 18 July 1979; We were warned – Currie, Life Lines p. 104; trio of young constables – Hill, Exit Lines p. 8; it’s better – ibid. p. 251; What did I do – Sampson, Sus p. 26

here People were taken – Scraton, The State of the Police pp.119–20; The police are – Pearse & Matheson op. cit.p. p. 34; When you canvas – ibid. p. 34

here This is the start – Sun 3 April 1980; unacceptable – Whitelaw op. cit. p. 185; the causes, then – Sun 5 April 1980; having in the past – Scarman, The Scarman Report p. 75; a shameful episode – Whitelaw op. cit. p. 192; Sorry about the colour – Steel op. cit. p. 99

here Black bastards – ibid. p. 99; his camera – Kettle & Hodges, Uprising! p. 116; Fuck monetarism – Vasili, Colouring over the White Line, p. 183; There is police violence – Sun 3 October 1981; The casus belli – Cole, As It Seemed to Me p. 258; Lambeth is now – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 254; same apparatus – Macintyre op.cit. p. 60; An alternative view – Pearse & Matheson op. cit. p. 35

here Black people – Daily Mail 7 April 1981; we must develop – Whitelaw op. cit. p. 193; The thing – Benn, The End of an Era p. 299; racial prejudice – Scarman op. cit. p. 198

here the character – Scraton op. cit. p. 95; public opinion – Hollingsworth op. cit. p. 117; the majority – Whitelaw op. cit. p. 188; I grew up – The Times 16 October 1981; despite the three million – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 199

here No job to be found – Jerry Dammers, ‘Ghost Town’ (Plangent Visions Music, 1981); the most effective – O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better p. 48; Oh dear – Gittins, Top of the Pops p. 90

5: War

here The definition – Rendell, The Veiled One p. 52; Calling generals – Colin Moulding, ‘Generals and Majors’ (Virgin Records, 1980); When British territory – The Times 4 April 1982

here I should think – Benn, The End of an Era p. 162

here It wasn’t a very good – Meyer, The View from the Bridge p. 152; seductive banality – ibid. p. 143; I hope people – The Times 30 November 1983; an unbalanced portrayal – The Times 7 December 1983; immature minds – Kingsley & Tibballs, Box of Delights p. 214

here too horrifying – Ferris, Sir Huge p. 184

here paranoid times – production notes on 2003 DVD of Edge of Darkness; paranoid talk – interview on 2003 DVD of A Very British Coup; one of the few MPs – Lyall, The Secret Servant p. 61

here poets must be allowed – Longford, Diary of a Year p. 81; Whatever the horrors – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 247

here British houses – Stuart, Douglas Hurd p. 130; Wartime Broadcasting Service – Daily Telegraph 3 October 2008; IMPROVE YOUR GOLF – Donald (ed.), Viz Comic p. 114

here the steady drip – Kent, Undiscovered Ends p. 182; It is the teaching – The Times 4 May 1982; Pupils in the schools – The Times 27 September 1986

here mice voting for cats – Drower, Neil Kinnock p. 75; Children’s worries – Daily Mirror 20 June 1984; nightmares about the bomb – Townsend, Adrian Mole From Minor to Major p. 156; Britain needs – Osmond, The Divided Kingdom p. 177

here I beg you – Drower op. cit. p. 95

here a military irrelevance – Thatcher, The Downing Street Years p. 177; The news was – Williams, Diaries p. 651; Believe me – Young, One of Us p. 264; It’s all over – Clark, Into Politics pp.310–1; 1800 British settlers – Benn op. cit. p. 202

here The people of – Thatcher op. cit. p. 183; the longer-term interest – Morgan, Michael Foot p. 412; leader of the opposition – Weight, Patriots p. 615; it was important – Clark op. cit. p. 315; We should not tie – Benn op. cit. p. 207; British Vietnam – Woolf & Wilson, Authors Take Sides on the Falklands p. 30; I know a fascist – Morgan op. cit. p. 412; within an ace – Clark op. cit. p. 317

here I estimated – Cole, As It Seemed To Me p. 264; In a strange way – Whitelaw, The Whitelaw Memoirs p. 205; When I did return – Parris, Chance Witness p. 305; You’ll have to watch – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 111

here young people – Everett, You’ll Never Be 16 Again p. 156; After the newsflash – Davidson, Close to the Edge p. 126; lunatic nationalistic pride – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 305; amusing morale booster – Owen, Time to Declare p. 550; elaborate even-handedness – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 196

here If the Falkland Islanders – Sunday Telegraph 23 May 1982; A lot of my job – Young op. cit. p. 274

here speak-your-weight – Eddy & Linklater, The Falklands War p. 210

here a short cut – Stewart, The History of The Times p. 128; thirty-seven years – Livingstone, Livingstone’s Labour p. 2; Arsenal beating Brentford – Ashton, Red Rose Blues p. 223

here We fought to show – Young, One of Us pp. 280–1

here split activists – O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better pp. 76–7; the left will have – Burchill, Love It or Shove It p. 107; what does it matter – Clark, Diaries p. 5; Now they are singing – Bennett, Writing Home p. 123; Victorian nursery – Woolf & Wilson op. cit. p. 96

here IT’S WAR SENOR! – Searle, Your Daily Dose p. 20; I would want – Daily Mail 7 March 1984; what about the war? – Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library pp.273–5

here standard of living – Mitchell, Four Years in the Death of the Labour Party p. 107; a floppy toy – Hollingsworth, The Press and Political Dissent p. 238; The party’s leftwing – Chippindale & Horrie op. cit. p. 140

here no more intention – Drower op. cit. p. 111; glories in slaughter – ibid. pp. 115–6; toughened by Tebbitry – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 8; It will be seen – The Times 6 June 1983

here my biggest mistake – Hibbert, Best of Q Who the Hell . . .? p. 34; Mr Everett – Daily Mirror 7 June 1983; They were just cheering – The Times 8 June 1983

here one post-war election – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 148; The Alliance is beginning – Benn op. cit. p. 290; the cost of stamps – ibid. p. 298; an absolutely amazing – ibid. p. 324; for the first time – Guardian 23 June 1983

here rescuing disaster – Mitchell op. cit. p. 5; a government majority – Clark, Diaries p. 36

Part Two: When the Wind Blows

here It was a quiet – Barnard, Political Suicide p. 7; What I do – Brenton & Hare, Pravda p. 27

6: The Second Thatcher Government

here Authoritative – Daily Mail 5 March 1984; Who will be – Daily Mirror 9 April 1984; British industry – Benn, The End of an Era p. 368; seemed interminable – Morgan, Michael Foot p. 429; Unilateralism – Leapman, Kinnock p. 33

here in the same league – Crick, Militant p. 183; meaningless promises – Benn op. cit.p. p. 286; why not lose it – Hattersley, Who Goes Home? p. 238; Prominent trade union – Heffer, Labour’s Future p. 42

here TV’S CRUELLEST SHOW – Lewisohn, Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy p. 629

here He was widely regarded – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 167; FUNNYMAN KINNOCK – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 142; a few drinks – Gould op. cit. p. 163; It’s all right – Hattersley op. cit. p. 286; working-class background – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 31; we can only defend – Drower, Neil Kinnock p. 140

here a person who gives – Sunday Times 3 December 1989

here political crush – Macintyre, Mandelson p. 42; more time with my family – Financial Times 20 October 1983; certain “buzz” words – Benn op. cit. p. 359; what a misery – ibid. p. 424; triumph of image – Macintyre op. cit. p. 110; The people’s flag – The Times 2 October 1986; The people’s rose – Benn op. cit. p. 474

here Better to light a candle – Leapman op. cit. p. 189; a petty bourgeois – Knight, Parliamentary Sauce p. 62; a red-haired, smiling man – Barnard, Political Suicide p. 116

here There isn’t any anger – Daily Mirror 27 March 1984; one of the first – Campbell, Wigan Pier Revisited p. 65; You don’t need – ibid. p. 66

here Perhaps the sharpest – Parris, Chance Witness p. 283; Gravely I listened – Clark, Diaries p. 72; Give us jobs – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 227

here There used to be – Independent 3 April 2003; What use – Holden, Of Presidents, Prime Ministers and Princes pp. 205–6; Heysel was – Edworthy, The Second Most Important Job in the Country p. 172

here The season following – Hornby, Fever Pitch p.157; For a laugh – Gittins, Top of the Pops p. 145

here Davis’s work – Burn, Pocket Money p. 11; We’ve got different views – ibid. pp.13–14

here I think a lot – ibid. p. 15; charm, politeness – Daily Mail 21 April 1981; with a twenty-four hour – Davies, The Last Election p. 37; We are fucking back – Borrows, The Hurricane p. 214

here a walking time bomb – Donald, Viz Comic p. 18

here Order, method, discipline – Burn op. cit. p. 65; I was well known – Whitelaw, The Whitelaw Memoirs p. 163; confused and widely – Hurd, Memoirs p. 319

here The trade unions – Benn op. cit. p. 445; What is more Victorian – Young, One of Us p. 343

here He is big already – Pearce, The Senate of Lilliput p. 125; quite unwilling – Sunday Times 29 December 1985; We can take – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 pp.216–7; Why should we – Doig, Westminster Babylon p. 288; Your vision of her – The Times 24 July 1987

here Bongo Bongo Land – Financial Times 7 February 1985; tended to be workshy – Daily Mail 5 March 1984; It is enough for her – Lodge, Nice Work p. 47

here Union Jack buffs – Clark, Diaries p. 65; He can tell a good joke – Sun 16 October 1981; bought his own furniture – Independent 19 May 2009; combs his hair in public – Sergeant, Maggie p. 45; He’s about seven foot tall – Hoggart, House of Cards p. 71; to Heseltine – ibid. p. 56; His hair is too long – Clark, Diaries: Into Politics p. 361; Then I must leave – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 310; not a proper way – Young op. cit. p. 447

here long-winded – Thatcher, The Downing Street Years p. 435; unbelievably incompetent – Steel, Against Goliath p. 262; For a few seconds – Clark, Diaries p. 135; a better issue – Sergeant op. cit. p. 51; so many people think – Wyatt op. cit. p. 386

here gone up in the world – Critchley, Hung Parliament p. 29; more Estonians – Clark, The Tories p. 485; a brilliant tyrant – Critchley, Westminster Blues p. 103; neutered zombies – Radio 3 news bulletin, 1984; People always talk – Barnard op. cit. p. 136; the present cabinet – Daily Mail 17 March 1984; I have seen the future – Watkins, A Conservative Coup p. 61; It lacked subtlety – Independent 15 May 1996

here our opponents – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 246; if he was to have – Rendell, The Veiled One pp.255–6

here It is a rather – The Times 3 November 1986; I do not believe – The Times 2 November 1986; having struck – Rimbaud, Shibboleth p. 320

here some of the most brutal – www.batrewick.co.uk retrieved 24 June 2009; If only they would return – Bennett, Writing Home p. 147; boys and girls – Keys, Thatcher’s Britain p. 76

here The police are viewed – A Different Reality p. 63; the violent charge – Scraton, The State of the Police p. 15; factor of racialism – Dunhill, The Boys in Blue p. 126; white, bearded men – Hollingsworth, The Press and Political Dissent p. 129; Street-fighting experts – ibid. pp.129–30

here Always tell them – Guardian 21 January 2004; I condemn the police – The Times 8 October 1985; The police were to blame – ibid. 9 October 1985; Had it not been – Financial Times 12 October 1985; very hard – Macintyre op. cit. p. 90; Kinnock today – Benn op. cit. p. 426.

7: Identities

here There may be minorities – Wharton, The Best of Peter Simple p. 162; The penis these days – teleplay by Malcolm Bradbury from novel by Tom Sharpe; Sack all council workers – Sun 17 November 1986; Red Ron Probert – Mortimer, Rumpole’s Last Case pp.28–9

here popular worries – Guardian 22 February 1974; the loony left – The Times 17 June 1975; Political interference – The Times 30 December 1980

here Anne Batt – Daily Mail 8 September 1977; distorting our policies – Livingstone, If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It p. 238; Most of the stories – O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better p. 125; You’d have to be mad – Owen, Time to Declare p. 580; We were set – King, House Music pp.27–8

here We recognized – Livingstone op. cit. p. 245; I would no more expect – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 157; You’re not really – Livingstone, Livingstone’s Labour p. 90; the London boroughs – Hatton, Inside Left p. 89; middle-class – ibid. p. 91

here It was as if – Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful p. 164; Any loony cause – Ashton, Red Rose Blues p. 219; terrorist groupies – The Times 9 September 1983; a bunch of dafties – The Times 25 April 1986; Women’s Lib – Stewart, Protest or Power p. 100; no socialist analysis – Benn, The End of an Era p. 244

here normal functioning – http://byronik.com/claagnotes.pdf retrieved 6 July 2009; It really gives – Hollingsworth, The Press and Political Dissent p. 172

here Whatever idealism – ibid. p. 180; ragtag and bobtail – ibid. p. 185; At first, women – Dunhill, The Boys in Blue pp.175–6; When peace is so beautiful – Rendell, The Veiled One p. 170; Several members – Lodge, Nice Work p. 57

here slogans, sisterhood – Danks, Better Off Dead p. 19; I wondered – Independent 6 November 1998

here I thrilled to the knowledge – Hamer & Budge, The Good, the Bad and the Gorgeous p. 74; Many of today’s – Daily Star 21 May 1981; had to have a bodyguard – Daily Telegraph 6 May 1981; That’s ridiculous! – Sun 6 May 1981; MARTINA TURNS GIRLS – Sun 12 July 1990; a member of – Croft, You Have Been Watching p. 231; When a man – O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better p. 62

here Dungarees are quite sexy – Collins, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now p. 24; took the discussion – Kent, Undiscovered Ends p. 186; honorary man – Fenton, Scorched Earth p. 145; straightforward provincial – Sampson, The Changing Anatomy of Britain p. 41

here someone young – Clark, Diaries p. 37; Mr Gummer is 43 – Hoggart, House of Cards p. 98; She talks to me – Daily Mirror 9 January 1981

here There are lots – Sun 9 April 1980; What will your husband – Gorman, No, Prime Minister! p. 117; a workplace full – ibid. p. 168; It is doubtful – Leapman, Kinnock p. 180; what they call – Currie, Diaries p. 195

here had known a sergeant – Robinson, A Dedicated Man p. 225; When he first – Hill, Exit Lines pp.298–9; Just because – ibid. p. 347

here prancing poofter – Kingsley & Tibballs, Box of Delights p. 256

here was more or less – Skinner, Frank Skinner p. 225; Ben Elton speaks – Collins op. cit. pp.241–2; hugely popular – Steel op. cit. p. 168; We’re so looking – Steel, It’s Not a Runner Bean p. 45; There is so little – Harris, The Mother-in-Law Joke p. 91

here He lacks a sense – Financial Times 4 December 1987; You can reduce – Sunday Times 23 September 1990; They are entertaining – Dunant, Exterminating Angels p. 30; Either we deromanticize – ibid. p. 74; It is the threat – Thompson, Peter Cook pp.124–5; The Tories had won – Harris op. cit. p. 130

here average, unpolitical – Macintyre, Mandelson p. 155; It would create – Leapman op. cit. p. 74; I consider – The Times 14 June 1985

here The Labour Party – Leapman op. cit. p. 74; the first stage – The Times 5 August 1985; really a vehicle – Hattersley, Who Goes Home? p. 278; I don’t give a damn – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 215; Our candidate – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 182

here The gays and lesbians – Macintyre op. cit. 118; Labour-dominated – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 265; a huge gulf – Livingstone, If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It p. 251

here The 1985 elections – ibid. p. 272; If you want – Daily Mirror 11 April 1984; When it comes – Hollingsworth op. cit. p. 103; Marxism? – Pearse & Matheson, Ken Livingstone p. 89; personal was political – Livingstone op. cit. p. 93; The party – Livingstone, Livingstone’s Labour p. 8

here There is no doubt – Benn op. cit. p. 578

8: Enemies

here We agreed – Clark, Diaries: Into Politics p. 286; Both the right – Campbell, Wigan Pier Revisited p. 113; We refuse – Leapman, Kinnock p. 111

here you don’t care – Osmond, The Divided Kingdom p. 44

here If necessary – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 182; will save – Beynon, Digging Deeper p. 92; to fix responsibility – Hain, Political Strikes p. 128; No strike shall – The Times 15 June 1926

here What has happened – The Times 31 March 1983; the eventual battle – Beynon op. cit. p. 35; a list of – Ridley, My Style of Government p. 67

here I do not deny – Young, One of Us p. 226; come into politics – Beynon op. cit. p. 36; there has been – Bennett, Writing Home pp.123–4; We had to fight – Young op. cit. p. 371; Those who prate – Leapman op. cit. pp.26–7

here traditional enemy – Clark, The Tories p. 476; Labour’s brigade – Heffer, Never a Yes Man p. 204; it cannot be right – Beynon op. cit. p. 13; The issue – Benn, The End of an Era p. 341

here Arthur Scargill’s duty – Hattersley, Who Goes Home? p. 271; the bully boys – MacGregor, The Enemies Within p. 180; They were animals – Scraton, The State of the Police p. 4

here rosy-cheeked – Selbourne, Left Behind pp.122–3; They brought a lot – Hill, Under World p. 319; He was handy – Robinson, A Necessary End p. 113

here Without equivocation – Hollingsworth, The Press and Political Dissent p. 266; Hitler used his thugs – ibid. p. 275; Members of all – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 176; Napoleon of Barnsley – Daily Express 22 June 1984; she felt – Stewart, The History of The Times p. 209; Scargill’s cannon fodder – Hollingsworth op. cit. p. 273

here Personally, I didn’t like – Prescott, Docks to Downing Street p. 148; A kind of civil war – Benn op. cit. p. 361; bungled by both sides – Williams, Diaries p. 699; If the pickets – Daily Mail 19 June 1984; For the first time – Scraton op. cit. p. 6

here In Barnsley market – Ashton, Red Rose Blues p. 247; a field hospital – Benn op. cit. p. 352; Because the poor – Hain, Political Strikes p. 142; the biggest and most – Beynon op. cit. p. 99; it energized – Collins, Still Suitable for Miners p. 147

here gay or lesbian – Burchill, Love It or Shove It p. 11; Welsh valleys – Denselow, When the Music’s Over p. 213; I hope thee’s – Steel, It’s Not a Runner Bean p. 37; Mrs Thatcher has – Daily Mirror 29 March 1984

here What would be – Beynon op. cit.; What’s the strategy – Leapman op. cit. p. 45; They had not used – Chapple, Sparks Fly! p. 225; I am not here – Daily Mirror 31 March 1984; It was as if – Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful p. 104

here MINERS START – Hollingsworth op. cit. p. 249; Take away the coal – Ashton op. cit. p. 229; It was essential – Brown, Fighting Talk p. 137; Margaret Thatcher’s – Tebbit op. cit. p. 238

here the fact that – Thatcher, The Downing Street Years p. 382; If they had just – Clark op. cit. p. 99; If the IRA – Bennett, Writing Home p. 137; Today we were unlucky – The Times 13 October 1984

here Our concessions – Thatcher op. cit. p. 415

here I am the leader – Selbourne op. cit. p. 155; Yes, they were – Hatton, Inside Left pp. 117–19; Being martyrs – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 166

here Councils like – Hatton op. cit. p. 90; hammer home – ibid. p. 99; We had badly – ibid. p. 99

here It was too much – Heffer op. cit. p. 213; I can’t understand – Benn op. cit. p. 424; Neil’s speech – Leapman op. cit. pp. 105- 6; the most moving – Macintyre, Mandelson p. 84; I’m not too old – Leapman op. cit. p. 115

here We did make – Benn op. cit. p. 456; we created – Hatton op. cit. p. 108

9: Moralities

here She had – James, A Taste for Death p. 229; It is increasingly – The Times 28 December 1985; He wasn’t suitable – Raymond, He Died with His Eyes Open p. 6; more self-reliant – www.margaretthatcher.org retrieved 20 July 2009

here hard work – Ridley, My Style of Government p. 18; To spread alarm – The Times 11 May 1982; she ignores – Daily Mirror 5 January 1981; thirty minutes – The Times 11 September 1985

here as she is urging – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 p. 567

here We believed – Kochan, Ann Widdecombe p. 117; The film itself – Daily Mirror 14 September 1981

here Recently, one picture – Whittaker, Blue Period p. 28; Girls on horseback – Harris, The Mother-in-Law Joke p. 119; He likes to feel – Daily Mirror 4 July 1979; Modelling has become – Donald, Viz Comic p. 18

here She looked – Kavanagh, Going to the Dogs p. 26; Girls of sixteen – ibid. p. 145; younger and younger – Lamb, Sunrise p. 110; display of pictures – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 199; Men must learn – Daily Mail 9 November 1987

here We have removed – The Times 12 November 1981; a gross intrusion – Daily Express 21 June 1984; The nanny state – The Times 4 October 1978; Interference from – Financial Times 21 November 1984

here the basic structure – The Times 26 September 1983; The strange thing – Ridley op. cit. p. 263; After the triumphs – Wharton, The Best of Peter Simple p. 78; the established – The Times 12 April 1986; improve understanding – Currie, Life Lines p. 65; Drunken violence – Daily Mirror 20 June 1988

here the desire to mutilate – Lodge, Nice Work p. 220; My interest – ibid. p. 5; all part – ibid. p. 245; She has something – Daily Mail 3 March 1984; renowned as a – Gorman, No, Prime Minister! p. 186; the nagocracy – Elliott and Atkinson, The Gods that Failed p. 154

here I believe – Livingstone, If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It p. 55

here I bitterly regret – Barker, The Video Nasties p. 19

here There is no more – The Times 13 December 1983; Britain fought – Daily Mail 30 June 1983; an indication – Barker op. cit. p. 61

here It is theoretically – Ingrams, You Might As Well Be Dead pp. 73-4; No one has the right – Barker op. cit. p. 29; Many British people – The Times 17 December 1983

here He praises – Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood p. 229; Pornography represented – The Times 11 November 1983; anything goes – Savage, Time Travel p. 282; I sense – Scraton, The State of the Police p. 85; armed police – ibid. p. 41; carrying out – Times Educational Supplement 16 July 1982

here audio nasties – Rimbaud, Shibboleth p. 255; It is our opinion – ibid. p. 256; He has recently – Morgan, The New Statesman p. 12

here So many – Q issue 22, July 1988; a conspiracy – Daily Mail 22 February 1980; Their job – Daily Mirror 11 April 1984; the pressures – The Times 23 April 1981; I fear – Clark, Diaries p. 320

here This is not – The Times 2 February 1982; was guilty of – The Times 6 January 1982; the trauma suffered – The Times 4 February 1987

here A declining market – Symons, Bloody Murder p. 253

here Another Depression – ibid. p. 255; bully-worship – Orwell, Decline of the English Murder p. 75; its crooks – Rankin, Knots & Crosses p. 81

here in the interest – Rendell, The Veiled One p. 203; he had many objections – Robinson, A Dedicated Man p. 174; A man’s got to be mad – Hill, Child’s Play p. 299; It was what – Raymond, The Devil’s Home on Leave p. 32

here There is a racial problem – Daily Mirror 13 January 1981; indulged in an orgy – The Times 4 October 1984

here I think that – ‘Stonewall’, The Reunion (Whistledown Productions, Radio 4, broadcast 20 September 2009); to disabuse children – The Times 11 November 1986; We did it – Daily Mirror 3 February 1988;

here The tabloids were screaming – Guardian 12 December 2003; the subject of – Williams, Diaries pp. 774–775; a punishment – The Times 3 November 1988

here we must endure – Garfield, The End of Innocence p. 30; There is no – Currie op. cit. p. 71; California and New York – Garfield op. cit. p. 42; All homosexuals – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 181; STRAIGHT SEX – ibid. p. 325

here active homosexuals – Garfield op. cit. p. 182; TORIES’ MP – Doig, Westminster Babylonp. p. 124; His parents – Independent 25 November 1988; in view of – The Times 11 August 1986; As the years go by – Currie op. cit. p. 95

here It is for people – The Times 13 December 1986; Some people – Daily Mail 24 January 1987; I think it is fairly safe – Sunday Times 14 December 1986; Say plainly – Garfield op. cit. p. 121; people would associate – Daily Mirror 2 February 1988

here Oral sex – Garfield op. cit. p. 118; I remember her – Currie, Diaries p. 9; a new depth – Daily Mail 12 November 1987 ; “Sex” means – The Times 10 July 1986; You won’t stop – O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better p. 162; If you must – Sunday Times 14 December 1986

here Once you went – Lawson, Bloody Margaret p. 207; The problems – Currie, Life Lines p. 111; No metropolitan – Walker, Icons in the Fire p. 109

10: Boom

here It is no longer – Lawson, Bloody Margaret p. 188

here I am sure – Ridley, My Style of Government p. 257; I exercise – Owen, Time to Declare p. 701; It’s like teeth – Lawson op. cit. p. 176

here If we were – Keys, Thatcher’s Britain p. 3; We Conservatives – The Times 11 October 1986

here Mickey Mouse phones – Daily Mail 4 October 1979; How much more – Sunday Times 13 July 1986; First of all – Faith, A Very Different Country p. 239; selling the furniture – Daily Mail 12 March 1984; He has this future – Colin Moulding, ‘Making Plans For Nigel’ (Virgin Records, 1979)

here We had lots – Tony Capstick, ‘Capstick Comes Home’ (Dingles Records, 1981)

here A pair of – Hillier, The Style of the Century p. 232

here an acceptable management – The Times 30 September 1986

here one of the most – The Times 24 July 1985; we’re living – Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ‘Two Tribes’ (ZTT Records, 1984); a new generation – The Times 21 March 1984; In the beginning – Cartwright, Look at It this Way p. 133

here Lynn had many – Barnard, A City of Strangers pp. 20–1; it has been considered – Knight, Parliamentary Sauce pp. 45–6; Making money – Lewisohn, Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy p. 486

here destructive to the – Sunday Times 20 September 1987; This oily member – The Times 25 September 1986; You know what – Mortimer, Paradise Postponed p. 299; what it must be like – ibid. p. 183; that deeply misunderstood – Blacker, Fixx p. 145; This strike – ibid.p. p. p. p. 311; I see our – ibid.p. 312

here Charles had always – Drabble, The Radiant Way p. 143; Previously he had – Barnard op. cit. p. 21; I am, and have always – Macdonell, The Autobiography of a Cad p. 197; The redundant churches – ibid. p. 208

here wide open – Currie, Diaries p. 22; Those staring eyes – ibid. p. 37

here This isn’t business – Lodge, Nice Work p. 219; I regard myself – ibid. p. 313; Here are a group – Independent 8 December 1986

here reported it missing – The Times 19 September 1985

here pop tycoon – Daily Mail 1 March 1984; pop millionaire – Daily Mirror 9 April 1984; setting myself – Branson, Losing My Virginity p. 219; I began to lose – ibid. p. 263

here the Barringdean Centre – Rendell, The Veiled One p. 1; we built cathedrals – Pinner, There’ll Always Be an England pp. 158–9; With their sanitized – Godfrey, A Decade of i-Deas p. 195; Your future dream – Cook, Jones, Matlock, Rotten, ‘Anarchy in the UK’ (EMI, 1976); one of the legitimate – Hewison, Culture and Consensus p. 272; could lay a – Stewart, The History of The Times p. 223

here Edinburgh’s Slightly – Daily Telegraph 8 August 2009; City of Culture – Banks, Espedair Street p. 37; Liverpool is at the present – Melly, Revolt Into Style p. 214; Liverpool, once the pride – Walker, Icons in the Fire p. 20

here one of the really remarkable – Isaacs, Storm Over 4 p. 77

here the famous Liverpool – The Times 9 May 1986; they told me – Campbell, Wigan Pier Revisited p. 15; People in other – Selbourne, Left Behind p. 152; that sentimental – Bennett, Writing Home p. 182; It hardly matters – Daily Mirror 29 March 1984

here to knock Liverpool – Observer 16 December 2007; He’s only a spokesman – Q issue 22 July 1988; One can have – Kureishi & Savage, The Faber Book of Pop p. 598

here This is not just – Geldof, Is That It? p. 289; In a period – Denselow, When the Music’s Over p. 246; A generation – Osborne, Damn You, England p. 51; a shambles – Press Gazette 8 July 2005; self-interested – Independent 22 November 2001; young upwardly – Baez, And a Voice to Sing With p. 357

here All of us had built – Ure, If I Was p. 165; We had an invasion – The Times 22 June 1990; I saw the Secret – Wikipedia, retrieved 16 November 2009

here I’ve got a – Cryer, You Won’t Believe This But p. 198; I have never been – Williams, Diaries p. 782; Agents and directors – Steel, It’s Not a Runner Bean p. 90; They were all – Sunday Times 18 May 2008; we’re doing the party – Collins, Still Suitable for Miners p. 167

here The way I felt – Q issue 26, November 1988; LABOUR USES – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 220

here I think he’s – The Times 25 April 1988; Thatcherism’s shameless – Green, New Words p. 154

here we believe – Chippindale & Horrie op. cit. p. 240

Part Three: Under the God

here This is the – Davies, A Very Peculiar Practice: The New Frontier p. 245; Survival of the – Rona Munro, ‘Survival’, Doctor Who (1989); The question is – Fry & Laurie, A Bit of Fry and Laurie p. 126

11: The Third Thatcher Government

here How Thatcherite – Macintyre, Mandelson p. 152; You don’t have to be – Daily Mail 2 November 1987; That’s what makes – Barnard, A City of Strangers p. 191; This is the most – Benn, The End of an Era p. 511

here that wonderful – Clark, Diaries: Into Politics p. 254; packaging which – Owen, Time to Declare p. 691; It was a film – Rodgers, Fourth Among Equals p. 257

here to repeat the film – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 263; you don’t think – Macintyre op. cit. p. 123; The increase – Permanent Revolution: Issue 9 (summer/autumn 1991) p. 9

here in a welter – Hurst, Charles Kennedy p. 62; I feel ashamed – Rodgers op. cit. p. 259

here that the Liberals – Clark op. cit. p. 221; an ego fat – Leapman, Kinnock p. 197

here Your husband – Owen, Time to Declare p. 779; battle of the mice – ibid. p. 757; he said that – Brandreth, Breaking the Code p. 10

here the situation we inherit – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 86; The distance – ibid. p. 78; there was a – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 214; Nye Bevan – McSmith op. cit. p. 85; how demoralized – Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries p. 24

here He believes – ibid. p. 81; I think the – Benn op. cit. p. 568; To get into – Knight, Parliamentary Sauce p. 172

here I like that – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 p. 242; YUP! IT’S JUST – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 238; Mr Lawson – Daily Mail 4 November 1987; Stock market – Williams, Diaries p. 765; the unthinkable – The Times 20 October 1987

here there has been – Daily Mail 2 November 1987; Does he think – Routledge, Gordon Brown p. 148

here Dazed from many – The Times 28 December 1988; drowned for a pound – Chippindale & Horrie op. cit. p. 215; the usual hotch-potch – George, Take It Like a Man p. 509; barbaric – Daily Mail 9 November 1987

here Mr MacKenzie – Chippindale & Horrie op. cit. p. 291; For complacency – Hornby, Fever Pitch p. 224

here Most of the egg – Currie, Lifelines p. 260; At the time – Ingham, Kill the Messenger p. 211

here the sort of people – Independent 7 June 1995; At the beginning – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 141; they were everywhere – Cartwright, Look at It this Way p. 262; I didn’t know – The Times 14 April 1988

here A high and rising – Halcrow, Keith Joseph p. 83; The working class – Parsons, Dispatches from the Front Line of Popular Culture pp. 227–8; It’s a guide – Sunday Times 15 December 1985

here he has brought – The Times 4 December 1980; In the arcade – Amis, Money pp. 24–5

here Your day’s gone – Sykes, If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Else Will p. 453; I was still – Dawson, No Tears for the Clown pp. 99–100

here Political correctness – Davidson, Close to the Edge pp. 170–1; It was just – Tough, The Krankies p. 191; the British public – Gittins, Top of the Pops p. 53; upper-class – Tough op. cit. p. 120

here if you care for – Sunday Times 22 October 1989; I began to feel – Dawson op. cit. p. 114; The recession – Williams, Diaries p. 647; It’s been a – Dawson op. cit. p. 178

12: Media

here British newspapers – Leapman, Kinnock p. 182; There is a new – Townsend, Adrian Mole From Minor to Major p. 283; We are accustomed – Daily Mail 11 November 1987

here Fleet Street – Cameron, Express Newspapers p. 43; No newspaper – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 70; factory-gate reader – Wintour, The Rise and Fall of Fleet Street p. 162; SORRY MICHAEL – Hollingsworth, The Press and Political Dissent p. 235

here the most vulgar – Wintour op. cit. p. 262; Tabloid readers – Jameson, Last of the Hot Metal Men p. 75

here Who the hell – ibid. p. 77; Bloody hell – Q issue 17, February 1988; The odds were – Cameron op. cit. pp. 143–4

here I was in the company – Goodman, From Bevan To Blair p. 261; One: the papers – Hollingsworth, The Press and Political Dissent p. 243; He really is – Benn, Out of the Wilderness p. 294; rather melodramatic – Geldof, Is That It? p. 280

here PULPIT POOFS – The Times 16 November 1987; He is so hideously – Chippindale & Horrie op. cit. p. 167

here the men read – Benn, The End of an Era p. 253; Did Britain’s – Carrott, Carrott Roots p. 17; stringently examined – Daily Mirror 23 January 1981

here About one in four – Wintour op. cit. p. 241; Over and again – Deedes, Dear Bill pp. 297–8

here The mob’s on the rampage – Neil, Full Disclosure p. 88; I condemn – Leapman, Kinnock p. 37; When will you – Stewart, The History of The Times p. 226

here coldly and cynically – Financial Times 27 January 1986; He wants them – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 p. 54; Sometimes I think – Neil op. cit. p. 135

here It was horrific – Benn op. cit. p. 450; that enough police – Neil op. cit. p. 169

here I would remind you – Cameron op. cit. p. 156

here surely you have – Isaacs, Storm Over 4 p. 68; to tastes and interests – Whitelaw, The Whitelaw Memoirs p. 220

here Should black Britons – Isaacs op. cit. p. 76; You’ve got it – ibid. p. 65; the channel is – The Times 26 October 1982

here You and your kind – Collins, Still Suitable for Miners p. 184; Now we’ll have – Independent 15 June 1987; You can’t go – Sunday Times 10 November 1985

here In 1986 Britain – Hibbert, Best of Q Who the Hell . . .? p. xiv

here There were some nights – Kingsley & Tibballs, Box of Delights p. 255; It seems increasingly – Q issue 45, June 1990

here country recipes – Daily Mail 2 November 1987

here stay with Ken – The Times 24 February 1983; EXCLUSIVE – Daily Mirror 11 February 1988; Its verbal aggression – Kingsley & Tibballs op. cit. p. 228

here I feel sorry – Kingsley, Soap Box p. 267; The Street – Chippindale & Horrie op. cit. p. 151

here 2 + 2 – The Times 10 April 1970; an unknown composer – Branson, Losing My Virginity p. 213

here one no longer – Daily Mail 13 March 1984; a hip new station – Walker, The Autobiography p. 306

here I must say – Leapman, Kinnock p. 140

13: Establishment

here Instead of seeking – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 274; I don’t want – teleplay by Malcolm Bradbury from novel by Tom Sharpe; She disliked – Hurd, Memoirs p. 332; a sunset home – Gilmour op. cit.Dancing with Dogma p. 252

here an agency – Stewart, The History of The Times p. 78

here great offence – The Times 30 May 1988; Mr Lawrence – Daily Mirror 1 June 1988

here as though they – Gilmour op. cit. p. 255; Why did the government – Watkins, A Conservative Coup p. 90

here the three terrorists – Independent 23 May 1989; she’s an ex-prostitute – Sun 30 April 1988; Not since the days – The Times 28 April 1988

here tissue of lies – Kingsley & Tibballs, Box of Delights p. 236; a British empire – Keys, Thatcher’s Britain p. 3; through the teaching – The Times 24 August 1984; the initially tedious – Thatcher, The Downing Street Years p. 595; thoroughly exasperated – ibid. p. 596

here a lot of fucking bollocks – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 180

here the Aboriginals – Sun 20 January 1988; It was Britain – Sun 6 September 1988; Clearly the Indians – Sun 6 February 1989; fucking cheating – Guardian 19 December 2005; Whack the Pakistanis – Sun 12 December 1987; A large proportion – Guardian 8 January 2004; I know West Indian families – Powell, No Easy Answers p. 109

here We of the white tribe – Kettle & Hodges, Uprising! p. 62; an exemplary government – Wharton, The Best of Peter Simple p. 51; It is a fantastic victory – Benn, Conflicts of Interest p. 584; conservative, topdown – Kent, Undiscovered Ends p. 198; The contrast – ibid. p. 199; providing his colleague – Daily Mail 5 September 1980

here Such a government – The Times 22 September 1984; divine intervention – The Times 10 July 1984; if the human – Carpenter, Robert Runcie p. 273

here The Church of England – Faith, A Very Different Country p. 242; a political plea – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 245; The political face – Bradley, Breaking the Mould? p. 110; family services – Yorke, Find Me a Villain p. 119; To his great alarm – Clark, Diaries: Into Politics p. 300; I am completely certain – Clark, Diaries p. 90; All too well – ibid. p. 91

here departmental memo – Pearce, The Senate of Lilliput p. 115; the words themselves – Martin & Mullen, No Alternative, p. ix; A belief in God – Sunday Telegraph 16 November 1980; then the Church – The Times 20 November 1980; wasn’t even particularly – James, A Taste for Death p. 295

here better than expected – Young, One of Us p. 282; within the complexities – The Times 3 May 1982; there were no – Carpenter, Robert Runcie p. 259

here It’s important to get – Clark op. cit. p. 40; Of all the elements – Young op. cit. p. 411; typical of the people – Davies, To Build a New Jerusalem p. 259; Mrs Thatcher is the most – Independent 12 June 1987;

here The prime minister – Hansard 15 February 1989; The year 1900 – Hughes, The Shock of the New p. 425

here the minister for gays – Garfield, The End of Innocence p. 107; Much of British management – Daily Mail 22 February 1979; It was an outrageous – Rodgers, Fourth Among Equals p. 269; shoddy, thoughtless – Daily Express 1 June 1984

here the feelings and – Rodgers op. cit. p. 270; in a Georgian rectory – Mortimer, Titmuss Regained p. 250; she has no taste – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 p. 186

here If they do not wish – Young op. cit. p. 402; Who will notice? – Lodge, Nice Work p. 62; Things have happened – The Times 28 July 1981

here when the British Council – Hughes op. cit. p. 372; It will not be lost – The Times 6 December 1984; on common sense – Fyfield, Shadows on the Mirror p. 27; he doesn’t really belong – ibid. p. 110; The middle classes – Halcrow, Keith Joseph pp. 182–3; he was one of – Mortimer, Rumpole’s Last Case p. 124

here It cannot be right – Wyatt, Journals Volume 2 p. 67; the government’s clash – Daily Mail 1 March 1990; It is the very simple fact – Stewart op. cit. p. 49; bourgeois triumphalism – Young op. cit. p. 536; Old fashioned Tories – Observer 5 June 1983; The Tory Party – this and next two quotes reported in Sunday Times 11 October 1987

here The fruits of – Stuart, Douglas Hurd p. 162; Like the extension – Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile p. 267; Everybody agrees – Daily Mail 28 June 1984

14: Globalization

here The Sun – Sun 10 December 1986; Of late – Elton, Stark p. 360; Workers of the world – Davies, To Build a New Jerusalem p. 1

here I like Mr Gorbachev – Young, One of Us p. 393; Loaves and little fishes – Stewart, The History of The Times p. 318; a large world – Weldon, The Cloning of Joanna May p. 20

here The Polish Press Agency – Whitaker, News Limited p. 44; demonstrated the strict – The Times 1 May 1986; seized on the tragedy – Livingstone, Livingstone’s Labour p. 203

here it is possible – Thatcher, The Downing Street Years pp. 640–1; When you’ve spent – Young op. cit. p. 273; poorly designed – Turner & O’Connell, The Whole World’s Watching p. 93; about as bad – ibid. p. 94; water quality – Ridley, My Style of Government p. 105

here The business of business – Roddick, Business as Unusual p. 24; the moment at which – Elton op. cit. p. 162; There are virtually – ibid. pp. 337–8

here Europe will be stronger – Thatcher op. cit. p. 745; change the course – Cole, As It Seemed To Me p. 345; She is an agnostic – Young, One of Us p. 185; Mrs Thatcher hated – Nicholson, Secret Society p. 84

here You are going to get – Sergeant, Maggie p. 32; a feeling that we – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 158; There is this new ingredient – Benn, The End of an Era p. 421

here During the long years – Howe, Conflict of Loyalty p. 661; He dislikes Europe – Neil, Full Disclosure p. 215; The French Revolution – Thatcher op. cit. p. 753

here seek to deny – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 249; Peter Wright is a bitter – Daily Mirror 3 June 1988; a complete break – Elms, The Way We Wore p. 263; There was no point – George, Take It Like a Man p. 533; For many of those – King, House Music p. 45

here endorsing the Marxist – Thatcher op. cit. p. 532; The ANC is a criminal – Searle, Your Daily Dose p. 35; condemning “racist” South Africa – Sun 14 July 1988; the member for – Knight, Parliamentary Sauce p. 210; providing oxygen – The Times 8 April 1988

here She is an exceptional girl – Daily Mirror 10 April 1984; indecent haste – Daily Mirror 9 August 1984

here never publicly detached – Searle op. cit. p. 56; after all the years – Thatcher op. cit. p. 531; an anti-socialist organization – Chapple, Sparks Fly! p. 199; Some of its leaders – Benn op. cit. p. 461

here whiners, whingers – Livingstone op. cit. p. 71

here I was asked to speak – Benn op. cit. p. 569; A political earthquake – International Socialism No. 47 (summer 1990) p. 2

here Anything is possible – Savage, Time Travel p. 267; As dictatorships in Europe – Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful p. 193; St George and the Dragon – Burchill, Love It or Shove It p. 118

here there can be no synthesis – International Socialism 2:37, Winter 1988; They have not – Elton op. cit. p. 245; the days of Audley – Price, The Memory Trap pp. 229–30; Defeat does strange things – ibid. p. 144

here Whatever their political views – Amis, Letters p. 1110

here The British government – Financial Times 9 March 1989; even if I had heard – Howe op. cit. p. 512; Tell the Mad Mullah – Sun 18 February 1989; If they don’t like it – Sun 25 February 1989; Perhaps he wishes – Sun 27 February 1989; increase anti-Muslim – Financial Times 16 February 1989; Nobody would have – Sunday Times 5 April 2009

15: Fall

here The Chamber places – Dobbs, House of Cards p. 77; When the history – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! p. 359; On her political gravestone – Independent 14 November 1990; As I go on – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 p. 124; I shall hang on – Sunday Times 8 May 1988

here Quite prepared – The Times 24 November 1989; Your 21st anniversary – Chippindale & Horrie op. cit. p. 358; What would she do – The Times 22 June 1987; Some time there will – The Times 26 October 1988; That’s the trouble – Wyatt, Journals Volume 2 p. 377

here some form of – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 203; It must be – Wyatt op. cit. p. 71

here A decade of motorcades – Clark, The Tories p. 494; had become a remote figure – Gorman, No, Prime Minister! pp. 232–3; I don’t know why – Wyatt op. cit. pp. 76–7; We were stuck – Clark, Diaries p. 296

here The PM and the government – Currie, Diaries p. 158; My father always said – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 p. 467

here wake up the nation – Watkins, A Conservative Coup p. 63; we tried three times – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 189; It was clearly much more – ibid. p. 227

here sheriff officers – Financial Times 31 Mach 1990; The great man stopped – Clark op. cit. p. 195; It’s not going to work – Watkins op. cit. p. 70

here The combination of the two – Ridley, My Style of Government p. 133; The Rating and Valuation – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 269; As they will be – Wyatt op. cit. p. 449; knowledge about tax – Nicholson, Secret Society p. 135; I am now inundated – Currie, Diaries p. 17

here had the community charge – Ingham, Kill the Messenger p. 244; No doubt about who – Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries p. 79

here Toytown revolutionaries – The Times 10 March 1990; Thatcher, her minions – Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful p. 201; You fucking cunt – Benn, End of an Era p. 589

here a good time – The Times 6 October 1981

here half-baked – Financial Times 18 October 1989; Walters is often – Currie op. cit. p. 137; He was no politician – Ridley op. cit. p. 5; My foreign secretary – Cole, As It Seemed To Me p. 327; I told him – Thatcher, The Downing Street Years p. 716

here she couldn’t have – Ridley op. cit. p. 216; After she had lost – Critchley, Hung Parliament p. 8

here She seems to be – Young, One of Us p. 560; Although we all – Currie op. cit. p. 164; he had a hard time – Clark op. cit. p. 280; I think that is – Ridley op. cit. p. 236; There are a hundred – Watkins op. cit. p. 11

here is increasingly seen – The Times 18 June 1990; I gave her a hug – Football Trivia (Paul Lamond Games, 2005)

here a German racket – The Times 13 July 1990; I’m not against – Watkins op. cit. p. 133; We appreciate – Knight, Parliamentary Sauce p. 113; turned out not to be – Ridley op. cit. p. 224; far too emotionally – Owen, Time to Declare p. 768

here I warmly welcome – Brandreth, Breaking the Code p. 16; will never have – Sergeant, Maggie p. 104

here Well, there is always – The Times 2 November 1990; that for the first time – Ingham, Kill the Messenger p. 389; I wish the old cow – Wyatt, Journals Volume 2 p. 384; I don’t think she realizes – Clark op. cit. p. 343

here patronizing and self-righteous – Howe, Conflict of Loyalty p. 659; If Conservatives think – Financial Times 9 November 1990; I am still at the crease – Howe op. cit. pp. 666–7; ducking was precisely – Watkins op. cit. p. 151; was almost a permanent part – ibid. p. 147; an unbelievably boring – Gorman op. cit. p. 233

here Who gives a toss – Clark op. cit. p. 346

here This was the most stunning – Ashdown op. cit. p. 96; It has certainly – Benn op. cit. p. 610; It was more than – Independent 14 November 1990; A significant consequence – Watkins op. cit. p. 154; Are you telling me – Nicholson op. cit. p. 148; She failed to see – Currie, Diaries p. 214

here There is a woman – quoted on Politics Between the Covers (BBC Radio 4) broadcast 21 November 2009; She was announcing – Ridley op. cit. pp. 246–7; They sold me – Wyatt op. cit. p. 401; and that everyone – Ashdown op. cit. p. 99

here I grabbed a thick ink marker – King, House Music p. 38; Can you imagine – Walker, The Autobiography p. 310; Why did they sack you – Stewart, The History of The Times p. 384; evil woman – The Times 23 November 1990; It may be inverted snobbishness – Wyatt op. cit. pp. 401–2

here That is what social mobility – Watkins op. cit. p. 198; probably not have backed him – Sergeant op. cit. p. 171; When she goes – Currie op. cit. p. 179; They wanted a new fashion – Dobbs op. cit. p. 21; people are sick – Clark op. cit. p. 363; thought he was – Gorman op. cit. p. 241

here In the world of – Brandreth op. cit. p. 23; I’m sorry, Geoffrey – Howe op. cit. p. 676

here lost his faith – Chippindale & Horrie, Stick It Up Your Punter! pp. 335–6; I don’t know why – Steel, It’s Not a Runner Bean p. 108; the devil incarnate – Prescott, Docks to Downing Street p. 139; He is a new type – Benn op. cit. p. 618; Margaret Thatcher’s overthrow – Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma p. 217

Outro: Aftermath

here Many people – Young, One of Us p. 348

here a sense of – The Times 23 November 1990; the quality of life – Lamb, Sunrise p. 166; What great cause – Thatcher, Downing Street Years, p. 167; Do you think – Knight, Parliamentary Sauce p. 59

here the two political parties – Wyatt, Journals Volume 1 p. 591; She forced – Ridley, My Style of Government p. 255; Our epitaph – Owen, Time to Declare p. 562

here the last Labour government – Thatcher op. cit. p. 4; I had always known – O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better p. 276

here A mass party – Rentoul, Tony Blair p. 90

here For me, Margaret Thatcher – Willgress, Stand Down Margaret

here As I grow – Sunday Times 8 November 2009; I suppose – Wyatt, Journals Volume 2 p. 442