A Classless Society

Where quotes in the text are derived from interviews or from email correspondence, they are shown here as (pc) to indicate personal communication.

here These should be – The Wonder Stuff, ‘The Size of a Cow’ (Universal Music Publishing Ltd, 1991)

here After all, this is the caring nineties – Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin, Drop the Dead Donkey, series 2, episode 9: ‘Damien Down and Out’

here If you and your New Labour Party – Peter Flannery, Our Friends in the North, episode 9: ‘1995’

Intro: Nineties

here There is no such thing – Woman’s Own 23 September 1987

here make changes – Major, The Autobiography p. 193

here the chance to take forward – Barnett, This Time p. 65

here I want to see us build – Times 29 November 1990

here not a society without difference – Major op. cit. p. 205

here Although in the 1980s – Sopel, Tony Blair p. 252

here I am not a Tory – Richards, Whatever It Takes p. 142

here a truly classless society – Bower, Gordon Brown p. 186

here The zeitgeist was free – Blair, A Journey p. 132

here The campaign never really caught – Guardian 13 April 1992

here people want – Weight, Patriots p. 692

here Never have I – Barnett op. cit. p. 131

here the waning fashions – www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108011

here a sham – Independent on Sunday 27 October 1996

here fucking prelates – Price, The Spin Doctor’s Diary p. 15

here I pray every night – Sunday Times 3 November 1996

here Never talk about God – Campbell, The Blair Years p. 112

here no longer appropriate – Independent 19 December 1992

here a contemporary City entrepreneur – Sunday Times 27 December 1992

here the most stripped-down – Independent 9 September 1994

here The menu offers – Times 13 June 1994

here The cooking is pleasant – Times 20 February 1993

Part One: The Buddha of Suburbia

here We are not slaying – Currie, Diaries, p. 275

here It’s a great responsibility – routine at Hysteria 3 benefit

here Do you enjoy anything – Alan Bennett, The Madness of King George

1: Enter John Major

here People forget – Patrick Marber, Steve Coogan & Armando Iannucci, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge episode 1

here I’ve always voted – Lodge, Therapy p. 87

here who’d have thought it? – Baker, The Turbulent Years p. 427

here he was what happened –Independent 3 May 1997

here I simply find myself – Wheatcroft, The Strange Death of Tory England p. 185

here Trying to write jokes – introduction to Drop the Dead Donkey series 2 DVD (Hat Trick International, 2005)

here least like to see – Independent 24 December 1996

here a minor Dickens character – Independent 9 November 1996

here Monsieur Ordinaire – Guardian 4 April 1992

here very, very competent – Patten, Not Quite the Diplomat p. 78

here more politically astute – Cole, As It Seemed To Me p. 445

here The public liked him – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 407

here I have never – Benn, Free at Last p. 5

here bowled over – Campbell, The Blair Years p. 104

here It was very seductive – Gorman, The Bastards p. 154

here Would you like – Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries p. 480

here listed for the amazed assembly – Diamond, Snake Oil p. 111

here His polling figures – Young, The Hugo Young Papers p. 330

here to be prime minister – Major, The Autobiography p. 210

here Most Tory backbenchers – Times 23 November 1990

here I’m not a Thatcherite – Currie, Diaries p. 247

here everything I’ve dreamt of – Junor, The Major Enigma p. 205

here he has deceived me – Wyatt, The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt Volume Two p. 586

here If it isn’t hurting – Major op. cit. p. 662

here He smiles – Spicer, The Spicer Diaries p. 437

here His whole life – Currie op. cit. p. 251

here I love my party – Young, This Blessed Plot p. 413

here I don’t want old style – Wyatt op. cit. pp. 401–2

here I want to bring into being – Major op. cit. p. 205

here Never has so much – Times 12 October 1991

here He is terribly lacking – Young, The Hugo Young Papers p. 325

here an ancient matinée idol – Brandreth, Breaking the Code p. 470

here It distracted us – Junor op. cit. p. 215

here Peter Snow clambered – Steel, Reasons to Be Cheerful p. 213

here languishing – Major op. cit. p. 662

here The politics of the property-owning democracy – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 392

here Sort out the fucking interest rates – Campbell, May & Shields, The Lad Done Bad p. 78

here unpleasant and untalented – Currie op. cit. p. 295

here I never believed – Hurd, Memoirs p. 427

here a discontented squirrel – Radice, Diaries 1980–2001 p. 331

here It is nice – Smith, I Think the Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes p. 83

here Rising unemployment – Sunday Times 19 May 1991

here This recession – Independent 10 June 1993

here some of his colleagues – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 238

here Kinnock was considered – Ashdown op. cit. p. 24

here Kinnock wouldn’t – ibid. p. 81

here looked and sounded – Heseltine op. cit. p. 409

here world of realities – Times 4 October 1990

here I would rather – Times 27 September 1991

here Not one of – Shore, Leading the Left p. 171

here If John Smith – Times 24 April 1992

here the great gift – Guardian 9 February 1993

here All the resources – Sunday Times 26 July 1992

here if there was an election – Benn op. cit. p. 57

here Had John moved – Blair, A Journey p. 52

here so many prawns – Shephard, Shephard’s Watch p. 82

here counter inflationary discipline – Shore op. cit. p. 183

here No more ideology – Cole op. cit. p. 395

here It is difficult – Shore op. cit. p. 170

here Vote Conservative – Sunday Times 19 July 1992

here Kinnock didn’t understand – Prescott, Prezza p. 170

here come back to us – Brandreth op. cit. p. 73

here we are starting – Financial Times 17 March 1992

here Very clever – Benn op. cit. p. 86

here every sub-editor – Richards, Preparing for Power p. 38

here Most of the comment – Currie op. cit. p. 307

here It’s pure theatre – Major op. cit. p. 297

here I liked the unpredictability – ibid. p. 290

here surreal – Straw, Last Man Standing p. 180

here It’s what Johnny Cash – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVyNV0FBC4, accessed 25 April 2013

here There is a fine line – Baker op. cit. p. 469

here for just a few seconds – Sunday Times 11 April 1993

here RED KINNOCK – Guardian 4 April 1992

here We were trying – Gould op. cit. p. 250

here the clique of spin doctors – Sopel, Tony Blair p. 138

here it looks to me – Benn op. cit. p. 88

here From the very top – Baker op. cit. p. 471

here Can Labour ever win? – Radice op. cit. p. 271

here We live in a dominant party system – Times 18 May 1992

here the most able – Independent on Sunday 2 August 1992

here I had lost – Major op. cit. p. 305

here he knows he hasn’t – Young op. cit. p. 436

here dreadfully badly – Wyatt op. cit. p. 681

here a great night – ibid. p. 691

here last Labour government – Thatcher, Downing Street Years p. 4

here heroes of this campaign – Financial Times 14 April 1992

here majority of its readers – Patten op. cit. p. 56

here You imagine – Campbell op. cit. p. 79

here What a bloody way – Richards, Whatever It Takes p. 40

here Neil was – Major op. cit. p. 307

here Gordon had not seized – Blair op. cit. p. 54

here He chickened out – Beckett, Gordon Brown p. 74

here I felt I had to be loyal – Routledge, Gordon Brown p. 164

here the most odious man – Pearse & Matheson, Ken Livingstone p. 29

here look at restricting – Gould op. cit. p. 220

here belief that monetary measures – ibid. p. 268

here Like Nigel Lawson – Major op. cit. p. 661

here arrogance – Giles Radice (pc)

here It always amazed me – Bryan Gould (pc)

here A ‘safety first’ approach – Brown, Fighting Talk p. 211

here do not trust Labour – Radice op. cit. p. 281

here the wavering voters – ibid. p. 322

here We were finding – Sopel op. cit. p. 130

here Playing safe – Brown op. cit. p. 207

here More compassionate – Gould op. cit. p. 281

here Our victory – Major op. cit. p. 311

2: Lads

here Basically, when all’s said – Loaded October 1994

here The higher up the tree – Gadney, Just When We Are Safest p. 3

here In a divided and troubled world – Richard Fegen & Andrew Norris, The Brittas Empire, series 1, episode 4: ‘Underwater Wedding’

here For fuck’s sake – Baddiel, Whatever Love Means p. 1

here I think it was at that point – ibid. p. 2

here people whose intelligence – Savage, Time Travel p. 397

here They offered me the office – The Clash, ‘Career Opportunities’ (Strummer/Jones, Nineden Ltd, 1977)

here the world of the new puritans – O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better p. 62

here I’ve had relations – Billy Bragg, ‘Sexuality’ (Bragg/Marr, Warner/Chappell, 1991)

here You have to tell me – Planer, The Right Man p. 90

here Men are struggling – Times 31 May 1991

here a tentatively positive – Sunday Times 2 June 1996

here Well, that’s because – Times 25 March 1995

here He did not invent – Sunday Times 10 October 1993

here We’re aspiring yobbos – Independent 8 June 1994

here The characters are conducting – Times 18 July 1996

here all the good time – Eric Burdon and the Animals, ‘Good Times’ (Burdon/Briggs/Weider/Jenkins/McCulloch, Sealark Ent/Slamina Music Inc., 1967)

here Like most blokes – Lewisohn, Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy p. 431

here Radio 1’s Steve Lamacq – Independent 20 July 2004

here dedicated to life – Loaded issue 1, May 1994

here Post-feminism has forced men – Sunday Times 10 October 1993

here they’ve got a fanny – quoted in Campbell, May & Shields, The Lad Done Bad p. 122

here a finite number of readers – Independent 18 August 1998

here Most of our readers – Independent 8 September 1994

here I do feel I’ve created – Sunday Times 2 June 1996

here if I didn’t move on – Independent 5 October 1997

here I don’t read magazines – Times 18 December 1998

here I can’t help feeling – Guardian 16 December 1994

here accepted what we are – Independent 8 September 1994

here It was about self-esteem – Independent 9 March 2004

here Men will be men – Independent 11 October 1996

here Complete with purple lipstick – Times 17 January 1996

here unintelligent, promiscuous – People 16 August 1998

here ESSEX GIRLS – quoted in Guardian 2 April 2011

here women are choosing – Forum Vol. 34 No. 5, 2000

here Under Labour – Independent 3 October 1996

here Bastards. All of them – Green, Straight Talking p. 2

here forget about men – ibid. p. 3

here Maybe I’m wrong – ibid. p. 9

here help meet public concern – Independent 27 November 1996

here Fwoarrrgh! – quoted in Independent on Sunday 10 March 1995

here generation’s heedless flirtation – Currie, A Parliamentary Affair p. 245

here The most worrying thing – Independent 5 January 1998

here We hope we have gone – Banks & Swift, The Joke’s On Us p. ix

here trite, casual sexism – Raphael, Never Mind the Bollocks p. 147

here These girls want sex – Forum Vol. 28 No. 8, 1995

here We talk just like them – Wener, Different for Girls p. 198

here Women, Sex – Liz Evans, Women, Sex and Rock ’n’ Roll (Pandora, London, 1994); Karen O’Brien, Hymn to Her: Women Musicians Talk (Virago, London, 1995); Lucy O’Brien, She Bop (Penguin, London, 1995); Amy Raphael, Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock (Virago, London, 1995)

here My guitar’s not – Independent on Sunday 24 November 1996

here the first Spice Girl – Times 13 December 1996

here corporate girlypop – O’Brien, She Bop II p. 465

here They’re the sort of girls – Observer 20 April 1997

here You can look like a babe – Independent on Sunday 24 November 1996

here It was only after the media – Times 16 March 1994

here She wasn’t a tits-out – Anderson & Levene, Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders p. 240

here The rules at the time – ibid. p. 239

here This seems like a demented extension – Independent 2 October 1997

here This is a small local event – Independent 31 October 1997

here If there’s a meaning – Times 25 October 1997

here Maybe I’m old-fashioned – Total Sport issue 18, June 1997

here Boxing is a high-risk sport – Independent 14 February 1998

here It used to be – Times 26 April 2001

here mini-skirted women – Times 24 July 1991

here They say the Chippendales – Q issue 75, December 1992

here Any normal woman – Independent on Sunday 18 July 1993

here It’s straight sex – Sunday Mirror 1 May 1994

here no children – Peter Darvill-Evans (pc)

here Got any straight sex – Freeman, The Undergrowth of Literature p. 79

here market research – Daily Mirror 14 July 1993

here the bulk of them – Guardian 31 July 1997

here A man is still – GQ issue 100, October 1997

here all-consuming, irrational – Pearson, The Far Corner p. 48

here was won by – Engel & Morrison, The Sportspages Almanac 1992 p. 9

here Rugby or association – Times 13 October 1990

here What, Man Utd still haven’t – Campbell, May & Shields op. cit. p. 91

here Eric likes to do – Harris, The Foreign Revolution p. 141

here And I want to apologise – ibid. p. 147

here OOH AHH PRISONA – Sun 26 March 1995

here When the seagulls – Daily Mirror 1 April 1995

here The British have succeeded – Harris op. cit. p. 145

here I’m gobsmacked – Reynolds, The Wrong Kind of Shirts ’99 p. 21

here I think we all give the wife – Reynolds, The Wrong Kind of Shirts 2 p. 45

here I like real, modern football – Harris op. cit. p. 224

here Bloody hell – Reynolds op. cit. p. 33

here He’s put me on grilled fish – Harris op. cit. pp. 233–4

here It’s truly a different world – Reynolds op. cit. p. 16

here If all football players – Times 27 December 1999

here The secret of our success – Reynolds op. cit. p. 77

here At that time – Harris op. cit. p. 155

here We all know we’re being exploited – Sun 16 March 1998

here Loyalty doesn’t seem to be – Times 30 December 1995

here He’s done a brilliant job – Times 27 July 1996

here quintessentially postmodern – Times 10 October 1992

here If you don’t know – Sunday Times 17 May 1992

here It was a catastrophe – Engel & Morrison op. cit. p. 12

here As if to take the piss – Steel, Reasons to Be Cheerful p. 238

here The game’s identity – Times 10 October 1992

here There’s a cancer – Independent 8 March 1997

here most of them – Daily Mirror 6 March 1997

here make his life hell – Times 6 March 1997

here He crossed the dividing line – Daily Mirror 6 March 1997

here I don’t think you can – Times 6 March 1997

here You don’t even have to – GQ, issue 100, October 1997

here the new vaudeville – Independent on Sunday 17 July 1994

here something about the spectacle – Thompson, Sunshine on Putty p. 37

here If you believe – Independent on Sunday 7 March 1999

3: Events

here What an ageing patient – Chris Morris & Armando Iannucci, The Day Today, episode 2

here What should you look for – Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries p. 259

here John Smith is – Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran, ‘The Irresistible Rise of Alan B’stard’, The New Statesman (1992)

here it can’t be any worse – Kochan, Ann Widdecombe p. 139

here spent the whole evening – Brandreth, Breaking the Code pp. 130–1

here trapped in the dollar-deutschmark crossfire – Major, The Autobiography p. 314

here the mother of all mistakes – Patten, Things to Come p. 24

here catastrophic defeat – Major op. cit. p. 334

here nobody’s got any confidence – Oborne, The Triumph of the Political Class p. 130

here My wife said – Times 22 September 1992

here With it has gone – Gorman, The Bastards p. 80

here They may hold office – Independent 25 September 1992

here Very little thought – Mandelson, The Third Man p. 145

here White for us – Blunkett, The Blunkett Tapes p. 118

here intellectually liberated – John Redwood (pc)

here we had for the moment – Hurd, Memoirs p. 426

here fool’s gold – Seldon, How Tory Governments Fall p. 419

here It was clear – Major op. cit. p. 194

here Both were plainly getting ready – Clark, Diaries p. 377

here Of those six points – Williams, Guilty Men p. 19

here I have a bucket load – Daily Mail 16 June 2012

here David’s definition – Major op. cit. p. 406

here said he was unable – Financial Times 21 July 1992

here Having grown – Times 26 September 1992

here An affair with an actress? – Major op. cit. p. 552

here drinking in the – Financial Times 22 December 1989

here any further measures – Guardian 27 July 1992

here PRESS ON PROBATION – Times 10 July 1992

here This is the man – this and next two quotes, Times 20 July 1992

here I was glad – Clifford, Max Clifford p. 134

here The lights would not – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 437

here We have an enduring obligation – Sunday Times 18 October 1992

here The trouble with this bloody government – Junor, The Major Enigma p. 274

here totally unacceptable – Daily Mirror 17 October 1992

here He looks weak – Times 16 October 1992

here I have rarely – Heseltine op. cit. p. 441

here My feelings were based – Major op. cit. p. 670

here We all took our eye – Sunday Times 25 October 1992

here the biggest tax increase – Sopel, Tony Blair p. 249

here I have no need – Major op. cit. p. 676

here You can never trust – Times 2 September 1993

here We did the party a favour – Gorman, No, Prime Minister! p. 257

here The VAT increase – Major op. cit. p. 686

here I can’t help thinking – People 11 April 1993

here The case for reform – Independent 21 July 1993

here I am short – Kochan op. cit. p. 209

here a death-watch beetle – Brandreth op. cit. p. 320

here She is as hard as nails – Daily Mirror 11 January 1996

here I was perfectly happy – Kochan op. cit. p. 192

here mums-in-chains – Daily Mirror 11 January 1996

here the growth in family break-up – Guardian 4 March 1992

here He blatantly misled – Independent 12 May 1994

here Resignation would be – Times 12 May 1994

here close to tears – Observer 22 May 1994

here it would cost – Independent on Sunday 22 May 1994

here I don’t think – Times 2 July 1994

here Everything we did – Iain Duncan Smith (pc)

here The show has an attitude – Independent on Sunday 28 February 1993

here less loved – Brandreth op. cit. p. 184

here John Major has the lowest – Lodge, Therapy p. 259

here There is something wrong – Independent 10 June 1993

here Norman’s statement – Brandreth op. cit. p. 187

here devious he would one day – Bayley, Labour Camp p. 103

here I am comfortable – Naughtie, The Rivals p. 47

here Why not? – Stephens, Tony Blair p. 74

here masterful inactivity – Guardian 19 November 1992

here the party appears – ibid.

here Simply relying – Guardian 14 November 1992

here demand that – Benn, Free at Last p. 148

here a target – Independent 24 September 1994

here A lot of people – Benn op. cit. p. 201

here No say, no pay – Sopel op. cit. p. 135

here Why can’t you get Gordon – ibid. p. 162

here There’s no doubt – Brown, Fighting Talk pp. 4–5

here I suspect language – Smith, I Think the Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes p. 256

here John Prescott – Times 30 September 1993

here incoherently eloquent – Radice, Diaries 1980–2001 p. 304

here I had to turn it – Brown op. cit. p. 226

here I may get the grammar wrong – Prime minister’s questions, 29 March 2006

here What fools we were – Sun 14 January 1994

here What a mistake – Currie, Diaries Vol II p. 124

here Love her or hate her – People 13 March 1994

here dead in the water – Wheatcroft, The Strange Death of Tory England p. 213

here transitional short-term figure – Young, The Hugo Young Papers p. 413

here Open speculation – Brandreth op. cit. p. 322

here He won’t last – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 253

here It’s just a fingertip thing – Brandreth op. cit. p. 174

here If John dies – Blair, A Journey p. 61

here Britain’s next prime minister – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 335

here Until the 1992 election – Beckett, Gordon Brown p. 69

here rounded on me – Hain, Outside In p. 166

here He’d have no chance – Bower, Gordon Brown p. 122

here I have given – Young op. cit. p. 390

here his somewhat dour appearance – Sopel op. cit. p. 180

here Funnily enough – Benn op. cit. p. 179

here looks as if you could not – ibid. p. 196

here Very irritating – ibid. p. 142

here the thinking man’s – Mandelson op. cit. p. 134

here He was probably – Prescott, Prezza p. 215

here apparently I am too ugly – Ashdown op. cit. p. 263

here Some feel the party – Sopel op. cit. p. 136

here It is difficult indeed – Shore, Leading the Left p. 187

here southern appeal – Routledge, Mandy p. 157

here there not just to mourn – Ashdown op. cit. p. 267

here He’s too like one of those – Major op. cit. p. 592

here avoided the trap – Radice op. cit. p. 320

here it might have been – Giles Radice (pc)

here I now believe – Mandelson op. cit. p. 173

here Tony Blair has become – Sunday Times 2 October 1994

4: Cool

here Tony Blair’s speech – Guardian 19 October 1996

here Britain is now the place – GQ issue 100, October 1997

here The Britpop movement was wrong – Randall, Exit Music p. 123

here SUEDE: THE BEST NEW BAND – Melody Maker 25 April 1992

here genuine teen mayhem – Haines, Bad Vibes p. 31

here The future of the programme – Times 14 July 1992

here Pop is dead – Radiohead, ‘Pop Is Dead’ (Radiohead, Warner Chappell Music Ltd, 1993)

here that neo-trampish – Sunday Times 28 June 1992

here The world had changed – Middles, Manic Street Preachers p. 91

here We always knew – Q issue 77, February 1993

here I thought: He’s a star – Barnett, Suede p. 71

here Ben Elton thinks – Daily Mirror 13 May 1995

here I’d had ten years – Independent 14 April 1998

here We can’t blame Mrs Thatcher – Elton, Inconceivable p. 65

here I was never a big fan – Room 101 26 January 2007

here We’re just your bog-standard – Q issue 90, March 1994

here Vic Reeves and Paul Merton – People 6 February 1994

here I’m interested in stylish comedy – Daily Mirror 24 July 1993

here I know I’m doing a good job – Sunday Times 26 January 1992

here I think it’s time – Daily Mirror 9 December 1995

here When you and I started – Monkhouse, Over the Limit p. 125

here that feels about right – Independent on Sunday 17 July 1994

here Variety’s for the working class – Monkhouse op cit. p. 234

here We should broaden its appeal – Times 21 July 1993

here Fourteen-year-old girlies – Times 24 July 1993

here sassy pop-literate – Lee, How I Escaped My Certain Fate p. 16

here When Rob Newman flew – ibid. p. 20

here that artist who paints – Daily Mail 1 July 2011

here Everybody in the late 1980s – Millree Hughes (pc)

here We had so little – Luke Haines (pc)

here a classic pseudo-event – Bayley, Labour Camp p. 92

here But is it good art – Luke Haines (pc)

here Great art is when – Brown, The Tony Years p. 228

here Hirst is, in any real sense – ibid. p. 229

here the dish of the day – Aslet, Anyone for England? p. 77

here How do you cook a chicken – Sun 19 September 1997

here eating out has become – Times 14 July 2001

here When I’m working hard – Guardian 7 May 1999

here Adidas shell-toes – Daily Mirror 25 August 2000

here upper-class Oxford – Times 2 February 1989

here About as working class – Daily Mirror 14 August 2000

here diet strategy – Financial Times 8 February 1995

here You could feel – Independent on Sunday 21 January 1996

here There’s been a depoliticisation – Times 6 February 1991

here Without any doubt – Steel, Reasons to Be Cheerful p. 225

here I had always known – O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better p. 276

here my political activism – Hardy, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation p. 104

here There is a lot of talk – Wyatt, The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt Volume Two p. 556

here the worst in the western world – Times 19 October 1992

here a distinguished Frenchman – Times 22 May 1995

here There will be no cuts – Independent 30 December 1995

here Part of my job – Observer 19 May 1996

here I didn’t like them much – Guardian 20 March 1996

here He is breaking – News of the World 24 March 1996

here It’s embarrassing – Independent 28 March 1996

here Who wants to be – Harris, The Last Party p. 241

here The screaming at gigs – James, A Bit of a Blur p. 130

here Part of the reason – Wener, Different for Girls p. 296

here Once, cool Britannia – Guardian 30 May 1992

here currently the coolest country – Sunday Times 22 September 1996

here the coolest English actor – Weight, Patriots p. 711

here Ron had great humour – Times 30 March 1995

here They promised a funeral – Daily Mirror 30 March 1995

here Thirty years of hurt – Baddiel, Skinner & the Lightning Seeds, ‘Three Lions’ (Ian Broudie/David Baddiel/Frank Skinner, Chrysalis Music Ltd/Avalon Management Group Ltd, 1996)

here Britain has won – Independent 12 November 1996

here Fucking plank! – Vanity Fair March 1997

here I am a modern man – Hernon, The Blair Decade p. 17

here The great bands – Harris op. cit. p. 191

here British music is back – Times 20 February 1996

here Bearing in mind – Times 24 February 1996

here Alan’s just been telling me – Harris op. cit. p. 304

here It’s a bit cheap – Independent on Sunday 3 November 1996

here What on earth – Radice, Diaries 1980–2001 p. 361

here PLEASE NOTE CHANGE – Independent 4 October 1996

here In sport – Observer 2 June 1996

here The Conran image – Sunday Times 9 February 1997

here If the Tories – Green, Days in the Life p. vi

here He’s anaesthetising – Sunday Times 3 November 1996

here I prefer John Major’s style – Sun 31 July 1997

here The Blair image – Redwood, The Death of Britain? pp. 189–90

here Suffice to say – Q issue 97 October 1994

here I want us – Daily Mirror 4 October 1995

here Until video discs – Independent 13 August 1993

here This game is sick – Daily Mirror 3 December 1997

here So-called games – News of the World 23 November 1997

here Max Clifford – Anderson & Levene, Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders p. 274

here If only they would return – Bennett, Writing Home p. 147

here established a mini-city – Times 31 May 1992

here The travellers bring – Guardian 28 May 1992

here This is anarchy working – Observer 24 May 1992

here Most people were as sickened – Times 8 October 1992

here We have all too many – Financial Times 7 October 1993

here Wheelie-bins being set on fire – Daily Mirror 14 October 1998

here Cocaine is the binding agent – Independent on Sunday 21 January 1996

here the same old pub rock – Independent 12 August 1997

here follows the Lock, Stock – rogerebert.suntimes.com, retrieved 30 May 2012

here Lara was becoming – Anderson & Levene op. cit. p. 249

here a cross between – Sunday Times 28 February 1988

here Soho was fizzing – James op. cit. p. 151

here not only were we drunk – Allen, Grow Up p. 348

here the whole country – Independent on Sunday 24 April 1994

5: Bastards

here I don’t know about you – Simon Nye, Men Behaving Badly, series 2, episode 8: ‘Rent Boy’

here Why do our people – Major, The Autobiography p. 605

here One thing I think – Armando Iannucci, The Friday Night Armistice (1996)

here a new and decisive – Young, This Blessed Plot p. 389

here game, set and match – Financial Times 11 December 1991

here I hate coming – Spicer, The Spicer Diaries p. 178

here I will not allow – Times 10 October 1991

here It is not on – Financial Times 9 October 1991

here pass the buck – Times 12 March 1975

here bind and fetter – Guardian 12 March 1975

here the country is being sold – Spicer op. cit. p. 193

here two warring armies – ibid. p. 181

here the fault-line – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 388

here Walter Elliott said – Gorman, The Bastards p. 149

here Four of the 1992 intake – Major op. cit. p. 347

here We are all trying – Times 13 May 1992

here An issue of such vital – Have I Got News for You, 22 May 1992

here It was Margaret’s support – Major op. cit. pp. 350–1

here When Britain was forced – Baker, The Turbulent Years p. 444

here I could have borne – Major op. cit. p. 338

here We spent much of our time – Hurd, Memoirs p. 432

here There wasn’t a lot – Tristan Garel-Jones (pc)

here The doors were left open – Giles Radice (pc)

here procrastinating on principle – Major op. cit. p. 273

here I think John Major – Richards, Preparing for Power p. 66

here since there was a general will – Young, The Hugo Young Papers p. 353

here inserting itself – Hurd op. cit. p. 417

here He went rather quiet – Wyatt, The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt Volume Two p. 637

here the only man – Young op. cit. p. 325

here vulgar, grandstanding – Brandreth, Breaking the Code p. 124

here I hope, prime minister – Times 7 October 1992

here Let us decide – ibid.

here It is something – Gorman op. cit. p. 101

here the best treaty available – Shore, Leading the Left p. 179

here The electorate has rejected – Gorman op. cit. pp. 199–200

here a mad-hatter coalition – Major op. cit. p. 375

here In the voting lobbies – Spicer op. cit. p. 203

here the biggest bore – Critchley & Halcrow, Collapse of Stout Party p. 162

here I am the biggest – Young op. cit. p. 377

here The Conservative establishment – Times 29 December 1995

here a populist cause – Heseltine op. cit. p. 451

here You’re cunts – Brandreth op. cit. p. 165

here I was talking – Bird & Fortune, The Long Johns p. 24

here The awkward-squad – Sun 23 August 1993

here Did she play – Iain Duncan Smith (pc)

here devils on the fringe – Sunday Times 19 September 1993

here I shall not be – Times 3 January 1991

here like a sulk – Pearce, The Senate of Lilliput p. 146

here She can be petty – Wyatt op. cit. p. 500

here She was always criticising – Cole, As It Seemed To Me p. 397

here Isn’t she beautiful? – Brandreth op. cit. p. 109

here only acolytes – Currie, Diaries p. 231

here How can it be principled – Gorman op. cit. pp. 229–30

here I must admit – Benn, Free at Last p. 192

here The prime minister’s got the party – Gorman op. cit. p. 210

here Under the leadership – Times 24 July 1993

here a party that is still – Major op. cit. p. 343

here Loyalty is the Tories’ secret weapon – Sunday Times 19 October 2003

here There is no vacancy – Times 2 May 1994

here I’m as strong and loyal – Bird & Fortune op. cit. p. 30

here I’m going to fucking crucify – Sunday Times 16 January 1994

here I don’t see how – Brandreth op. cit. p. 201

here no surrender – Independent 23 March 1994

here It was a gratuitous – Major op. cit. p. 590

here It was a most humiliating retreat – ibid. p. 589

here an uproar – Spicer op. cit. p. 250

here My right honourable friend – Times 30 March 1994

here The balance of probability – Independent 30 March 1994

here There is a limit – Times 30 March 1994

here So, God’s a Tory – Williams, Guilty Men p. 68

here By lunchtime – Heseltine op. cit. p. 474

here The whips capitulated – Gorman, No, Prime Minister! p. 257

here Sunday shopping – Daily Mirror 28 January 1993

here It’s a cancer – Lovesey, Upon a Dark Night p. 149

here two hours of animals – Independent on Sunday 16 August 1998

here It reminds me of films – Sunday Times 27 September 1992

here It is as unpleasant – Independent 21 January 1993

here I am appalled – Sunday Mirror 26 July 1992

here Seen much worse – Times 27 January 1993

here UP YOURS DELORS – Sun 1 November 1990

here According to the commission’s media – Sunday Times 3 November 1991

here It’s supposed to last – Daily Mirror 16 March 1993

here What could possibly – Sunday Times 7 March 1993

here From what I gather – Times 29 March 1993

here following the herd – Blur, ‘Girls and Boys’ (Albarn/Coxon/James/Rowntree, MCA Music Ltd, 1994)

here In a moment of anger – Times 31 August 1998

here the government’s reckless disregard – Financial Times 26 March 1996

here WE’VE ALREADY EATEN – Daily Mirror 20 March 1996

here MAD COW ALERT OVER KIDS – Sun 21 March 1996

here COULD IT BE WORSE THAN AIDS? – Heseltine op. cit. p. 504

here I would not hesitate – Major op. cit. p. 652

here Why the hell – Sun 28 March 1996

here For those who believe – Heseltine op. cit. p. 506

here I have never been so worried – Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries p. 417

here MAD COW GERMS – Daily Mirror 10 October 1997

here Buy our burgers – Independent on Sunday 9 June 1996

here We cannot continue – Independent 22 May 1996

here twenty things – Sun 22 May 1996

here I reckon I’ll just – Monkhouse, Over the Limit p. 309

here The problems facing this country – Financial Times 13 June 1995

here that, in many ways – Shephard, Shephard’s Watch p. 47

here burying their ghosts – Tristan Garel-Jones (pc)

here when British ministers spoke – Major op. cit. p. 583

here We can’t do it – Patten, Not Quite the Diplomat p. 45

here no more than Texas – Times 22 September 1962

here the establishment of a confederation – Manchester Guardian 8 September 1867

here People are asked – Independent 9 June 1993

here We didn’t read – Daily Mail 4 October 1994

here It was the small print – Spicer op. cit. p. 396

here Nobody out there – Daily Mirror 7 October 1992

here overly obsessed – Hansard 24 March 1993

here My aims for the community – Financial Times 12 March 1991

here I could have played – Junor, The Major Enigma p. 294

here it would be better – Young op. cit. p. 449

here The principle of Parliament – Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867) chapter V

6: Charters

here The Met has never been cleaner – J.C. Wilshire, Between the Lines series 1, episode 13: ‘The Chill Factor’

here If this government can’t even privatise – Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin, Drop the Dead Donkey series 4, episode 6: ‘Sally in TV Times’

here State schools, I used to joke – Eclair, Camberwell Beauty p. 60

here You can put us girls down – Currie, A Parliamentary Affair p. 445

here medium-sized idea – Patten, Things to Come p. 20

here People who depend – Sunday Times, 24 March 1991

here I know that for millions – Major, The Autobiography p. 391

here as a young man – ibid. p. 247

here a bad miscarriageway – Daily Mirror 6 September 1994

here Chris Woodhead had many qualities – Blunkett, The Blunkett Tapes p. 32

here My overriding aim – Sunday Times 31 January 1993

here the first tests – Phillips, All Must Have Prizes p. 4

here When I asked to speak – Cable, Free Radical p. 212

here They are the people – Independent 15 October 1994

here I wasn’t prepared – Blunkett, The Blunkett Tapes p. 109

here a Labour leader – Campbell, The Blair Years p. 35

here I am not going to make – Independent on Sunday 1 January 1995

here the most unpleasant – Daily Mirror 5 October 1995

here For God’s sake – Daily Mirror 5 October 1995

here Tony has targeted – Mandelson, The Third Man p. 191

here fat, pompous bugger – Campbell op. cit. p. 90

here When socialists fall out – Daily Mirror 5 October 1995

here Not the most well-liked – Currie, Diaries Vol II p. 209

here fishperson – Sunday Times 25 July 1993

here I’m not going to defend – Brown, Fighting Talk p. 290

here reveal her stepchildren – Campbell op. cit. p. 101

here I suppose Lisanne – Radice, Diaries 1980–2001 p. 350

here had exactly the same choice – Benn, Free at Last p. 353

here I just want to be tough – Independent 24 January 1996

here let’s not fight the war – Observer 29 January 1995

here I’m not going to allow – Guardian 25 January 1996

here She is a doughty Commons performer – Independent 25 January 1996

here won genuine cheers – Times 25 January 1996

here a bloody good hiding – Times 9 October 1985

here The comprehensive schools – Independent 25 January 1996

here Ten years ago – Independent on Sunday 23 April 1995

here I don’t criticise – Guardian 22 January 1996

here In my heart of hearts – Blair, A Journey p. 203

here It was degrading – Independent 29 January 1997

here there was an argument – Prescott, Prezza p. 171

here You buggers have pinched – ibid. p. 173

here I used to be – Lodge, Therapy p. 37

here Privatising the railways – Patten, Not Quite the Diplomat p. 69

here I had been responsible – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 451

here The Post Office is part – Palin, Hemingway’s Chair p. 57

here Fight everyone out there – ibid. pp. 147–8

here It was more like – ibid. p. 201

here The full greeting – ibid. p. 197

here No matter what – Brookmyre, Quite Ugly One Morning p. 143

here amazingly inefficient – Young, The Hugo Young Papers p. 411

here This approach also means – Patten, Things to Come p. 112

here a factor in our dismal 1997 – Major op. cit. p. 393

here fragrant, intelligent – Sunday Times 4 September 1988

here insufferably patronising – Currie, Diaries Vol II p. 33

here Margaret Thatcher – Ed Borrie/S*M*A*S*H, ‘(I Want to) Kill Somebody’ (Copyright Control, 1994)

here The only reason – Hardy, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation p. 27

here She was the kind – Williams, Guilty Men p. 56

here search for economies – Independent 16 November 1993

here The prime minister’s policies – Sun 14 June 1996

here They are overpaid – Baker, The Turbulent Years p. 451

here The silent majority – Independent 7 October 1993

here Jack was sensible – Blair op. cit. p. 204

here one of our most impressive – Sun 10 November 1998

here none of us could be part – Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries p. 559

here We have literally to reclaim – Independent 5 September 1995

here It is not acceptable – Times 28 May 1994

here It is not exactly – Times 14 November 1996

here if he didn’t behave – Townsend, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years p. 206

here we’re against it – J. Jones, Labour of Love pp. 25–6

here So you’re to the left – Young op. cit. p. 518

here statement of common purpose – Guardian 21 February 1990

here That level of obstruction – Observer 14 April 1991

here It’s painful for me – Independent 15 June 1993

here overplayed – Guardian 17 May 1991

here arrogant, ungracious – Dexter, Death Is Now My Neighbour p. 250

here hypotheses, imaginings – ibid. p. 83

here Press conference – ibid. p. 205

here It was a shame – Daily Mirror 11 May 2000

here Rebus will be for Edinburgh – Daily Mirror 6 April 2000

here the man dubbed – Daily Mirror 12 December 1994

here extreme sexual personality – Independent 15 September 1994

here I do not understand – Independent on Sunday 18 September 1994

here a blatant attempt – Independent 15 September 1994

here My life has been ruined – Sunday Times 18 September 1994

here I hope that now – Daily Mirror 15 September 1994

here MURDERERS – Daily Mail 14 February 1997

here internalised – Times 22 February 1999

here It can be seen – Independent 23 February 1999

here The loony left – Independent 25 February 1999

here making sweeping assumptions – Times 26 January 1999

here the NHS was riddled – Blunkett, The Blunkett Tapes p. 113

here We have recognised – Independent 26 February 1999

here Sixty-seven of the seventy – Straw, Last Man Standing p. 248

here most police officers – Guardian 9 February 1999

here shooting niggers – Independent 25 April 1995

here the undermining of institutions – Patten op. cit. p. 52

here at a higher risk of arson – Guardian 25 July 2000

here I can’t remember – Mullin, A View from the Foothills p. 34

here a cosmetic public relations exercise – Financial Times 20 July 1991

here We don’t want a leader – Brandreth, Breaking the Code p. 122

here Maastricht, Mellor – ibid. p. 147

7: Basics

here The spectacle of a cabinet minister – Currie, A Parliamentary Affair p. 400

here The great moral issue – Peter Flannery, Our Friends in the North, episode 2: ‘1966’ (1996)

here Too many Conservative MPs – Sun 6 January 1997

here we pulled down – johnmajor.co.uk

here Within seconds – Parris, Great Parliamentary Scandals p. 324

here was intent on rolling back – Guardian 17 January 1994

here trend in some places – Williams, Guilty Men p. 47

here To me there is – Independent 7 January 1994

here Conservatives do make – Independent 7 January 1994

here This is our chance – Brandreth, Breaking the Code p. 232

here dreadful, but brilliant – Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries p. 141

here discarded condoms – Guardian 18 April 1992

here GAY SEX SHAME – Guardian 11 March 1992

here wandering at dusk – Parris op. cit. p. 298

here childish and stupid – Times 13 March 1992

here in the best interests – Times 10 March 1992

here Yet another victory – Guardian 10 March 1992

here gay and proud – Times 13 March 1992

here Mere infidelity – West, Murder in the Commons p. 160

here As Mrs Bottomley speaks – Guardian 11 July 1992

here My expectation was – Short, An Honourable Deception? p. 53

here admitted totally fabricating – Times 1 December 1992

here a last resort – Times 20 October 1992

here ANOTHER BACK TO BASICS – Sunday Mirror 13 February 1994

here a three-in-a-bed romp – People 9 April 1995

here her husband found them – Observer 2 June 1996

here a frilly garter – News of the World 14 January 1996

here the bloody ‘Back to Basics’ – Currie, Diaries Vol II p. 91

here They apply one standard – People 16 January 1994

here I will be a figure of fun – Clark, The Last Diaries p. 90

here I still think – Times 8 June 1993

here Quite frankly – Sunday Times 29 May 1994

here friendship with another man – Sunday Times 9 January 1994

here I have got to keep – Daily Mirror 11 January 1994

here queenie – Independent 29 November 1995

here poofter – Independent 28 November 1995

here It is the usual – Independent on Sunday 10 March 1996

here They’re a bunch of shits – Parris op. cit. p. 349

here the press who wildly throw – ibid. p. 392

here Sleaze-baiting – Independent 26 June 1993

here It was perceived – Major, The Autobiography pp. 692–3

here Is the Labour Party – Clark, The Tories p. 510

here I would like to be – Brandreth op. cit. p. 237

here Bad not just – Radice, Diaries 1980–2001 p. 313

here WOULD THE LAST DECENT PERSON – Daily Mirror 9 February 1994

here a desperate personal tragedy – Independent 10 February 1994

here Stephen was neither miserable – Times 11 February 1994

here Stephen was gloriously happy – Brandreth op. cit. p. 240

here Personally, I hope – Independent on Sunday 13 February 1994

here How do you feel – Independent 11 March 1994

here suggestions that officers – Times 11 March 1994

here The first indications – Daily Mirror 8 February 1994

here another chance to show – Sunday Telegraph 20 September 1992

here What Mrs Currie is seeking – Independent 22 February 1994

here Sodomy is unhygienic – Sunday Times 10 March 1991

here a matter of equality – Independent 18 February 1994

here a humdinger – Currie op. cit. p. 95

here We need to protect – Guardian 22 February 1994

here The British soldier – Sun 5 March 1996

here People are entitled – Guardian 22 February 1994

here quite a serious impact – Times 30 September 1998

here How can a law – Times 31 January 1994

here I said they should change – Times 11 December 1996

here a bisexual man – Barnett, Suede p. 102

here I’m more homosexual – Harris, The Last Party p. 163

here I first had gay sex – Daily Mirror 6 January 1994

here the stereotypical dyke – Daily Mirror 1 December 1993

here I’d play a lesbian – Times 22 January 1993

here Any form of ostentatious behaviour – Guardian 22 July 1967

here I think it was charming – youtube.com, retrieved 8 May 2012

here vice squad officers – Independent 30 March 1996

here a 250-year-old law – Guardian 26 October 1996

here I am the Billy Graham – Independent on Sunday 27 August 1995

here Amongst great British institutions – Q issue 76, January 1993

here GLITTER LIKED ME – Sun 10 November 1999

here highly reprehehsible– Guardian 12 November 1999

here This is not a witch-hunt – Times 20 December 1990

here it’s really no worse – Independent 22 March 1995

here Consensual sadomasochism – Times 2 December 1992

here silly and naughty – Sunday Times 27 April 1997

here there must be some limitation – Forum Vol. 2 No. 11, 1996

here sexual activity between – ibid.

here an extraordinary programme – Benn, Free at Last p. 458

here poked fun at – Elizabeth Coldwell (pc)

here Radical Marxist Sex Kitten – Financial Times 22 August 1991

here I’m not really – Daily Mirror 8 January 1972

here I always wanted to be – Independent on Sunday 4 June 1995

here I’ve enjoyed the evening – Daily Mirror 13 December 1993

here Aren’t the gays – Sunday Times 26 December 1993

here It’s an activity – Clary, A Young Man’s Passage p. 305

here witty, well-acted – People 28 February 1999

here which proves we can make – Sun 24 March 1999

here If Stuart had taken Nathan – Sunday Times 7 February 1999

here Even a ‘madam’ – Times 15 June 1999

here The result was – Blair, A Journey p. 219

here Brown confessed – Guardian 16 November 1998

here ARE WE BEING RUN – Sun 9 November 1998

here the government’s determination – Sun 10 November 1998

here a camp icon – Times 10 November 1998

here Chris Smith is openly – Daily Mirror 28 October 1998

here I know he’s that way – Naughtie, The Rivals p. 35

here From the conversation – Financial Times 12 November 1998

here From now on the Sun – Guardian 12 November 1998

here The trouble with Blair – Oborne & Walters, Alastair Campbell p. 166

here Odious is too polite – Sun 29 December 1997

here British homosexuals – Sunday Times 19 March 2000

here Hain is taking it calmly – Campbell, The Blair Years p. 448

here a classic Christ-type figure – Independent 16 April 2001

here Are you trying – Observer 11 November 2001

here As soon as Blair got in – New Statesman 11 February 2012

8: Resignation

here There are at least two oppositions – Times 2 May 1994

here After the defeat – Young, The Hugo Young Papers p. 405

here terrorism is unpleasant – Hansard, 22 June 1995 col. 472

here I am no longer prepared – Major, The Autobiography p. 626

here He just wants an answer – Times 26 June 1995

here Sometimes I feel – Independent 14 October 1994

here Running a country – Independent 15 October 1994

here It was a terrible meeting – Iain Duncan Smith (pc)

here They were very rude – Young op. cit. p. 453

here lie down in a dark room – Sunday Times 25 June 1995

here I’m ready to stand – Brandreth, Breaking the Code p. 339

here He preened – Sunday Times 13 March 1994

here he attracts the same kind – Sopel, Tony Blair p. 248

here eyes of an assassin – Observer 27 November 1994

here Skip a generation – Spicer, The Spicer Diaries p. 195

here We must listen – Independent 23 April 1994

here a Jew overcompensating – Young op. cit. p. 437

here privately courteous – Independent 11 August 1994

here Portillo struck me – Young op. cit. p. 414

here There’s nothing worse – quoted in Independent on Sunday 14 August 1994

here Choke on your champagne – Independent 3 December 1994

here I could tell – Brandreth op. cit. p. 297

here It was horrible – Times 9 September 1999

here He’s an orgasmatron – Independent on Sunday 4 December 1994

here a man who speaks – Critchley & Halcrow, Collapse of Stout Party p. 63

here the cabinet’s most junior member – Financial Times 15 December 1993

here he had heard gossip – Major op. cit. p. 621

here infiltrators from a strange – Times 26 October 1989

here an improved version – Times 17 May 1994

here John has never been exposed – Critchley & Halcrow op. cit. p. 57

here The key to Redwood – Williams, Guilty Men p. 23

here He’s nice and everyone likes him – Times 27 June 1995

here Daddy Woodentop – Brandreth op. cit. p. 340

here beatable, Eurosceptic – Major op. cit. p. 633

here decisive disaster – John Redwood (pc)

here a nice guy, but a loser – Guardian 23 June 1995

here would have looked good – Major op. cit. p. 634

here will back Portillo – Spicer op. cit. p. 254

here Today good Conservatives – Times 4 July 1995

here appeasement – see, for example, Conservative MPs William Cash and John Wilkinson in Times 14 March 1994 and 29 November 1994 respectively

here It was not really enough – Major op. cit. p. 645

here least worst option – Independent 5 July 1995

here The election has been decided – Critchley & Halcrow op. cit. p. 65

here It is healthy – Daily Telegraph 5 July 1995

here Yesterday Conservative MPs – Times 5 July 1995

here CHICKENS HAND IT TO BLAIR – Sun 5 July 1995

here That’s perfect – Campbell, The Blair Years p. 70

here None of us – Mandelson, The Third Man p. 192

here It was a rather brilliant tactic – Blair, A Journey p. 100

here My re-election ended the frenzy – Major op. cit. p. 646

here I don’t think it settled – Iain Duncan Smith (pc)

here slightly loopy – Clark, The Last Diaries p. 194

here some kind of Faustian bargain – Meyer, DC Confidential p. 18

here misrepresented their origins– Daily Mail 8 March 1990

here You need to rent an MP – Observer 23 October 1994

here Every month we got a bill – Times 20 October 1994

here He was a man – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 462

here If it falls to me – Financial Times 11 April 1995

here the Tories these days – Daily Telegraph 10 October 1994

here The more I looked – Heseltine op. cit. p. 446

here couldn’t see an apple-cart – Wheatcroft, The Strange Death of Tory England p. 199

here despite guidelines – Critchley & Halcrow op. cit. p. 93

here economical with – Times 5 November 1992

here How can they believe this – Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries p. 257

here I can’t be expected – People 23 January 1994

here He came out – Radice, Diaries 1980–2001 p. 313

here the extremely emotional way – Barnett, This Time p. 234

here I accept the genuineness – Financial Times 16 February 1996

here designedly – Cohen, Pretty Straight Guys p. 172

here we could find ourselves – Critchley & Halcrow op. cit. p. 90

here There was no conspiracy – Independent 16 February 1996

here It will be hairy – Barnett op. cit. p. 53

here Answers given – ibid. p. 242

here an arrogant government – Daily Mirror 27 February 1996

here one of the most startling speeches – Ashdown op. cit. p. 405

here the luxuries of – Times 12 November 1992

here grubby and wheedling – Ashdown op. cit. p. 406

here economical with the truth – Guardian 19 November 1986

here being conservative – Hawkins, The Anarchist p. 21

here much of the public anxiety – Major op. cit. p. 574

here We in this House – Financial Times 19 May 1995

here I deeply resent – Independent 19 May 1995

here What is really sleazy – Independent on Sunday 24 January 1993

here fat cats – Times 28 June 1991

here You’re doing the same job – Hill, On Beulah Height p. 262

here We are unearthing – Independent on Sunday 17 January 1993

here the number one – Daily Mirror 1 March 1995

here Government was powerless – Heseltine op. cit. p. 468

here a light-hearted gesture – Parris, Great Parliamentary Scandals p. 320

here This is truly tragic news – Times 6 November 1991

here The problem with John – Thatcher, The Path to Power p. 483

here an irrelevance – Times 22 May 1995

here We are all Eurosceptics – Independent 11 October 1995

here His own intellectual analysis – Hurd, Memoirs p. 511

here The truth is – Brandreth op. cit. p. 479

here new chancellor – Times 6 December 1996

here Hughie, get your tanks – Independent 28 January 2004

here class-ridden, prejudiced – Independent on Sunday 14 January 1996

here What I hope – Clark, The Last Diaries p. 204

here There are bad moments – Currie, Diaries Vol II p. 234

here harmonise uniforms – Times 11 October 1995

here for Britain – Financial Times 11 October 1995

here Cheap and nasty – Daily Mirror 11 October 1995

here grown newspapermen – Independent 11 October 1995

here deplorable . . . grotesque – Independent 12 October 1995

here rabble-rousing – Times 13 October 1995

here He has damaged – ibid.

here He knows he went too far – Brandreth op. cit. p. 353

here he is rash, amusing – Times 10 February 1997

here has predicted twelve – Johnson, Friends, Voters, Countrymen p. 157

here the recovery took place – Redwood, The Death of Britain? p. 15

here Unemployment rose – Major op. cit. p. 663

here for political reasons – Campbell, The Blair Years p. 124

here a wholly unprecedented sense – Dexter, Death Is Now My Neighbour p. 282

here mildly depressed – Young op. cit. p. 480

here If there’s going to be – Independent 15 March 1997

here As I look around me – Iannucci, Facts and Fancies p. 99

9: Election

here A tidal wave – on BBC’s Election ’97, quoted in N. Jones, Campaign 1997 p. 260

here It is a great rising up – Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason p. 203

here Because I haven’t always – Brandreth, Breaking the Code p. 518

here half a generation – Sunday Times 23 August 1992

here that things are going to be – Observer 8 November 1992

here the Third Way – Meyer, DC Confidential p. 95

here All the ideas from Clinton – Brown, Fighting Talk p. 273

here We don’t need – Mandelson, The Third Man p. 151

here said that for the first time – Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries p. 260

here doesn’t mention the Labour Party – Benn, Free at Last p. 177

here John was making the party – Richards, Preparing for Power p. 30

here Labour is not against wealth – Times 18 August 1993

here he was not going to add – Cole, As It Seemed To Me p. 423

here I was middle class – Blair, A Journey p. 26

here more European than the Tories – McSmith, Faces of Labour p. 336

here one of the most explicit – Straw, Last Man Standing p. 186

here The changing character – Shore, Leading the Left pp. 72–3

here Tony Blair yesterday – Times 5 October 1994

here was in raptures – Campbell, The Blair Years p. 21

here She said Tatler – ibid. p. 27

here That began making me feel – Benn op. cit. p. 315

here Yesterday the loony left – Sunday Times 30 April 1995

here I was surprised – Seldon, Blair p. 221

here there was no room – Blair op. cit. p. 94

here the recognition – Hutton, The State We’re In p. 326

here The old answers – Times 17 July 1993

here The lessons which the British left – Seldon op. cit. p. 133

here He trusts his own judgement – Young, The Hugo Young Papers p. 675

here a daily mandate – Stephens, Tony Blair p. 188

here had balls – Blair op. cit. p. 98

here clanking great balls – ibid. p. 80 and Campbell op. cit. p. 64

here balls of steel – N. Jones op. cit. p. 15

here brass nerve – Blair op. cit. p. 98

here tough choices – Sunday Times 17 July 1994

here wealth for the many – Times 12 October 1996

here a hand up – Sunday Times 3 July 1994

here Our Conservatism – Financial Times 28 June 1991

here with opportunity – Seldon, Blair p. 125

here our policies are based – http://www.johnmajor.co.uk/page1153.html retrieved 17 December 2012

here a modern relationship – Blair op. cit. p. 231

here Some people tend – Times 12 March 1991

here The language of New Labour – Major, The Autobiography p. 214

here We paid inordinate attention – Oborne, The Triumph of the Political Class p. 234

here hand to hand fighting – N. Jones op. cit. p. 10

here Journalists are inherently lazy – ibid. p. 22

here in a fair tax system – Daily Mirror 15 April 1996

here fucked up – Campbell op. cit. p. 117

here That woman – ibid.

here We won’t win – N. Jones op. cit. p. 115

here people who live – Richards op. cit. p. 26

here How can I be off-message – Williams, Guilty Men p. 144

here Mandelson project – Gould, Goodbye to All That p. 226

here the Kinnockite project – McSmith op. cit. p. 336

here Our new economic approach – ibid. p. 340

here It’s not Brown’s – Independent on Sunday 16 October 1994

here the fastest-growing – Richards op. cit. p. 16

here That woman fucking killed – Campbell op. cit. p. 78

here They all loathe Blair – Benn op. cit. p. 339

here At times his competence – Parris, Off-Message p. 2

here If only I could speak – Blair op. cit. p. 36

here I thought I told him – McSmith op. cit. p. 351

here One of his skills – Junor, The Major Enigma p. 201

here Tony has a habit – Prescott, Prezza p. 188

here Standing together – Sun 13 November 1998

here The buck stops here – Independent 2 October 1996

here I have spent sixteen years – Times 4 October 1995

here My ambition is clear – GQ issue 100, October 1997

here Power without principle – Hernon, The Blair Decade p. 5

here From my experience – Ashdown op. cit. p. 324

here a vampire – Times 17 May 1994

here The greatest con job – Young op. cit. p. 470

here a mistake to try – ibid. p. 430

here Tony Blair is a practising Christian – N. Jones op. cit. p. 143

here drew on the public’s – Guardian 10 January 1997

here flattened his bouffant hairstyle – Financial Times 6 November 1996

here worried enough – Times 21 October 1992

here If I really were dyeing – Major op. cit. p. 360

here It was a black day – Campbell op. cit. p. 138

here Political coverage – Mullin, A View from the Foothills p. 15

here Labour has stolen our ground – Ashdown op. cit. p. 324

here there’s real danger – Sunday Times 4 May 1997

here We should now dispose – Patten, Things to Come p. 15

here a light-hearted interview – Independent 5 March 1997

here appalling – Sun 5 March 1997

here the prissy ideologues – Barnett, This Time p. 39

here I’ve been here – Brandreth op. cit. p. 397

here in a very threatening manner – Independent 7 February 1995

here a series of homosexual encounters – Brandreth op. cit. p. 501

here piggybacking – McSmith op. cit. p. 237

here My thought process – N. Jones op. cit. p. 128

here made a mockery – Heseltine, Life in the Jungle p. 525

here He sounds tough – Radice, Diaries 1980–2001 p. 379

here I will not take – Barnett op. cit. p. 37

here his most dramatic – Daily Mail 17 April 1997

here What they thought – Iain Duncan Smith (pc)

here This is a single-issue – Times 25 October 1995

here I would not go that far – Sun 25 April 1996

here He is in part an anarchist – Young op. cit. p. 495

here Ken Clarke’s ventriloquist’s dummy – Critchley & Halcrow, Collapse of Stout Party p. 112

here pitiful piece of publicity – N. Jones op. cit. p. 230

here This was not a Eurosceptic concept – Heseltine op. cit. p. 527

here I know you’re bored – Barnett op. cit. p. 108

here clinging to his magic soapbox – Critchley & Halcrow op. cit. p. 122

here papered house – Clark, The Last Diaries p. 280

here There’s none of the bitterness – quoted in Sunday Times 4 May 1997

here He was sitting – Iain Duncan Smith (pc)

here the devil we know . . . however reluctantly – N. Jones op. cit. p. 258

here the long night – Routledge, Gordon Brown p. 276

here I discovered not just admiration – N. Jones op. cit. p. 264

here I touched him – ibid. p. 265

here the Mirror is merely – Guardian 25 April 1997

here None of these farces – Evening Standard 29 April 1997

here There is widespread umbrage – Critchley & Halcrow op. cit. p. 147

here What the fuck’s going on? – Wheatcroft, The Strange Death of Tory England p. 230

here revolution – Critchley & Halcrow op. cit. p. 8

here a bourgeois revolution – Williams op. cit. p. 183

here Nothing prepared me – Cathcart, Were You Still Up for Portillo? p. 18

here Up and down the country – Kochan, Ann Widdecombe p. 205

here The scale of the defeat – Shephard, Shephard’s Watch p. 172

here This was what it was – Shepherd, Enoch Powell p. 487

here a glorious new dawn – Townsend, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years pp. 65–6

here We’re having a Tony – Fielding op. cit. p. 207

here Out, out, out – Prescott, Prezza p. 213

here It’s marvellous – Independent 25 March 1996

here It was the defining moment – Steel, Reasons to Be Cheerful p. 248

here It was so relentlessly bad – Brandreth op. cit. pp. 516–17

here cheering and shouting – J. Jones, Labour of Love p. 56

here One thing alone – Cathcart op. cit. p. 117

here I believed we had stretched – Major op. cit. p. 309

here You can ask the people – Sunday Times 5 May 1996

here If I had stood unopposed – Observer 13 February 2000

here This is a time to be magnanimous – Cathcart op. cit. p. 38

here it was disgraceful to resign – Young, The Hugo Young Papers p. 574

here When the curtain falls – Financial Times 3 May 1997

here It’s a great job – Major op. cit. p. 726

here the recession I inherited – ibid. p. 689

here These are fantastically good – Bower, Gordon Brown p. 207

here Margaret Thatcher buried – Tristan Garel-Jones (pc)

here I felt it was beyond – Iain Duncan Smith (pc)

here could break the Tory Party – Weight, Patriots p. 330

here Majorism – Cole op. cit. p. 433

here There’s no banter – N. Jones op. cit. pp. 115–16

here I was warmed – Major op. cit. p. 632

here You had a rough decision – ibid. p. 727

Intermission: Patriotism

here You cannot suppress – speech to European Policy Forum 27 July 1994 (johnmajor.co.uk)

here England is obsessed – Patten, Not Quite the Diplomat p. 40

here We are forging – Sunday Times 29 March 1998

here I think an essential – Independent on Sunday 17 September 1995

here If there is a desire – Sunday Times 28 February 1993

here the joie de vivre – Sunday Times 16 February 1992

here John Major would call it – Sunday Times 21 April 1991

here The prime minister seems – Sunday Times 7 February 1993

here Fifty years from now – Major, The Autobiography p. 376

here a caricature – ibid.

here too easily caricatured – John Redwood (pc)

here WHAT A LOT OF TOSH – Independent on Sunday 25 April 1993

here We desperately need – Sunday Times 16 May 1993

here our strongest export sector – Independent 8 September 1997

here socialist – Daily Mirror 9 October 1992

here If it’s going to get up – Times 6 October 1992

here From time to time – Independent on Sunday 22 March 1998

here soap operas which had the quality – Independent 17 March 1998

here The target of Tony Blair’s Cool Britannia – Sunday Times 15 March 1998

here In those days foreigners – Independent 17 March 1998

here I’m old enough to remember – Lodge, Therapy p. 35

here the best generation – Parsons, Big Mouth Strikes Again p. 205

here His youth might – Parsons, Man and Boy p. 95

here I’m happy to be a bloke – Hornby, High Fidelity p. 103

here I mused that if Dad – O’Farrell, The Best a Man Can Get p. 205

here I don’t know what it – Izzard, Dress to Kill p. 86

here a man’s legs – Planer, The Right Man p. 118

here My father has carried – Eclair, Camberwell Beauty p. 342

here Due to Mr Blair’s obvious hatred – Townsend, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years p. 305

here We beat them in 1945 – Engel & Morrison, The Sportspages Almanac 1991 p. 8

here ACHTUNG! SURRENDER – Daily Mirror 24 June 1996

here TEN NASTIES – Daily Mirror 20 June 1996

here If Germany beat us – Patten, Not Quite the Diplomat p. 49

here He looked like a Greek god – Lodge op. cit. p. 90

here It was a time of hope – ibid. p. 91

here We’ll have spam – Daily Mirror 21 April 1994

here celebrations and commemorations – Independent 19 April 1994

here festivities and public relations stunts – Times 18 April 1994

here They have their history – Daily Mirror 19 April 1994

here trivial light entertainment – Sunday Times 17 April 1994

here carnival atmosphere – Daily Mirror 21 April 1994

here It’s a bit like saying – People 24 April 1994

here If someone wants – ibid.

here The debacle and retreat – Independent 22 April 1994.

here The D-Day anniversary – Times 21 April 1994

here The most potent – Williams, Guilty Men p. 8a seductive, subterranean – Observer 7 May 1995

here THEN AS NOW – Private Eye 871, 5 May 1995

here deliberately backward-looking – Independent 10 May 1995

here Looking around – Thompson, Sunshine on Putty p. 25

here Is it possible to have kitsch – Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary p. 123

here We are the last – Morrissey/Alain Whyte, ‘We’ll Let You Know’ (Copyright Control/MCA Music Ltd, 1992)

here Has Morrissey gone – New Musical Express 22 August 1992

here I like the flag – Observer, 6 December 1992

here When I see reports – Q issue 72 September 1992

here a strange swell of pride – Engel & Morrison, op. cit. p. 15

here flirting with fascist imagery – Maconie, 3862 Days p. 149

here It’s the greatest flag – Harris, The Last Party p. 130

here No wonder the English – Parsons, Man and Boy p. 299

here individualism, pragmatism – Paxman, The English p. 264

here It was a matter shut up – Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co, chapter 6: ‘The Flag of Their Country’

here a monopoly of patriotism – Financial Times 21 May 1987

here When you see – ibid.

here It is no good waving – Daily Mirror 4 October 1995

here discreetly woven – Financial Times 1 October 1991

here Let us say it with pride – Times 4 October 1995

here I am proud – Kampfner, Blair’s Wars p. 4

here felt a tug – Blair, A Journey p. 126

here become a wheezing caricature – Aslet, Anyone for England? p. 33

here It was the National Front – Benn, Free at Last p. 285

here We have reclaimed – Times 6 February 1998

here Union Jack election – Independent 4 October 1994

here People haven’t got a clue – Sunday Times 4 May 1997

here This coming election – Daily Mirror 4 October 1995

here Economics are the method – Hewison, Culture and Consensus p. 212

here Wherever you go – Independent 19 February 1993

here Very effectively – Blair op. cit. p. 57

here If we do not learn – Times 22 February 1993

here crusade against crime – Times 22 February 1993

here We should condemn – Times 24 February 1993

here We are the party – Sopel, Tony Blair p. 141

here The two of them – Independent 23 February 1993

here the toughest-ever – Times 13 April 1993

here Violence is not a knife – Times 13 December 1995

here the government and those who shape society – Times 27 December 1995

here to show everyone – philiplawrenceawards.net, retrieved 24 May 2012

here I don’t believe – Independent 25 September 1996

here flaws – Times 19 March 1996

here unworkable – Financial Times 19 March 1996

here a thorny area – Independent 19 March 1996

here she’s wasting her time – Sun 19 March 1996

here This generation – Independent 14 October 1995

here I think that if we win – Sunday Times 3 November 1996

here complains that we haven’t – Radice, Diaries 1980–2001 p. 401

here We made a very big mistake – Blair op. cit. p. 126

here changes just as exciting – Guardian 10 April 1964

here to build a new – Times 4 October 1995

here One-nation Labour – Times 7 October 1995

here a party for everyone – Wheatcroft, The Strange Death of Tory England p. 249

here good at being a man – Young, The Hugo Young Papers p. 479

here He is clearly going – Radice op. cit. p. 73

here I had always been fortunate – Blair op. cit. p. 663

here Sin isn’t a word – Wilson, The Vicar of Sorrows pp. 193–4

here jollier forms – ibid. p. 202

here A married man – ibid. p. 30

here The great Who’s Who – ibid. pp. 350–1

here unlikely to cause – Times 25 May 1994

here Diesel’s advertising – Evening Standard 3 March 1998

here nuns as sexual beings – Times 12 August 1998

here The Bible is clear – Times 29 March 2000

here Three of them – Daily Mirror 16 April 1993

here to warm up food – Independent 13 December 1994

here Immigration, an issue – Independent 10 September 1995

here I understand Britishness – Guardian 12 November 1998

here I do not accept – Times 20 April 2001

here Chicken tikka masala – Evening Standard 19 April 2001

here a ‘catastrophic intervention’ – Campbell, The Blair Years p. 522

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