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Who Dares Wins

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by Dominic Sandbrook


  26. Alwyn W. Turner, Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s (2010), p. 114; Moore, Not for Turning, p. 752; Sir John Coles, ‘Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher’, c. 14 June 1984, TFW.

  27. Campbell, Iron Lady, p. 155; Moore, Not for Turning, p. 755; Wall Street Journal, 20 June 1982; The Times, 21 June 1982.

  28. Daily Mirror, 16 June 1982; Spectator, 19 June 1982; Clark, Diaries: Into Politics, p. 336; Guardian, 16 June 1982.

  29. Campbell, Iron Lady, p. 215; Keith Britto, ‘Public Opinion Background Note 116’, 5 June 1982, TFW; Keith Britto, ‘Public Opinion Background Note 118’, 20 June 1982, TFW; Keith Britto, ‘Public Opinion Background Note 123’, 25 June 1982; Bernard Ingham to Thatcher, ‘Media Relations – Stocktaking and Look Ahead’, 3 August 1982, TFW. See also Ivor Crewe, ‘How to Win a Landslide without Really Trying: Why the Conservatives Won in 1983’, in Austin Ranney (ed.), Britain at the Polls, 1983: A Study of the General Election (Durham, NC, 1985), p. 159.

  30. The Times, 7 May 1982; and see the Britto poll data cited above, chapter 33, n. 32.

  31. David Sanders, Hugh Ward, David Marsh and Tony Fletcher, ‘Government Popularity and the Falklands War: A Reassessment’, British Journal of Political Science, 17:3 (1987), pp. 281–313.

  32. The Economist, 19 June 1982; Coles, ‘Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher’, c. 14 June 1984, TFW; Hugh Thomas to Thatcher, 16 June 1982, TFW; The Times, 31 March 1983.

  33. ‘Clipping of MT Interview with Woman’s Own Magazine’, 3 August 1982, TFW; ‘No. 10 Record of Conversation (MT-Alexander Solzhenitsyn)’, 11 May 1983, TFW.

  34. Guardian, 16 June 1982; Daily Mail, 16 June 1982; Benn, End of an Era, p. 239; The Economist, 26 June 1982; Daily Express, 22 June 1982.

  35. Campbell, Iron Lady, p. 159; Coles, ‘Appreciation of Margaret Thatcher’, c. 14 June 1984, TFW; Andy Beckett, Promised You a Miracle: UK80–82 (2015), p. 269.

  36. Evening Standard, 15 June 1982; Robert Harris, Gotcha! The Media, the Government and the Falklands Crisis (1983), p. 145; Bramley, Excursion to Hell, pp. 210–11.

  37. Julian Critchley, Some of Us: People Who Did Well under Thatcher (1992), pp. 141–2. On the idea of the war as a turning point, see, for example, Graham Stewart, Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s (2013), pp. 130–31; Moore, Not for Turning, p. 754; Parr, Our Boys, pp. 243–4; and especially Anthony Barnett, Iron Britannia: Time to Take the Great out of Britain (1982). On the nostalgic feel of the war, see Spectator, 19 June 1982; Burns, Land That Lost Its Heroes, pp. x–xi; Parr, Our Boys, pp. xv, 267.

  38. Daily Express, 22 June 1982.

  39. ‘Speech to Conservative Rally at Cheltenham’, 3 July 1982, TFW. On the background to the speech, see Christopher Collins’s analysis at https://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/1982cac4.asp, as well as Moore, Not for Turning, pp. 753–4.

  40. The Times, 19 July 1982; Daily Express, 19 July 1982.

  41. Clark, Diaries: Into Politics, pp. 340–41.

  42. Daily Mirror, 12 July 1982.

  43. Russell Davies (ed.), The Kenneth Williams Diaries (1993), p. 648.

  44. John Coles to Clive Whitmore, ‘Service of Thanksgiving’, 2 July 1982, TFW; John Coles to Clive Whitmore, ‘Service of Thanksgiving’, 5 July 1982, TFW. John Coles to Thatcher, 9 July 1982, TFW; Freedman, War and Diplomacy, pp. 663–4; Eliza Filby, God and Mrs Thatcher: The Battle for Britain’s Soul (2015), pp. 157–9; Moore, Not for Turning, pp. 755–7.

  45. The Times, 27 July 1982, 28 July 1982; Daily Express, 27 July 1982; Mark Garnett, From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975 (2007), pp. 186–7.

  46. Moore, Not for Turning, p. 757; Willie Whitelaw, in David L. Edwards (ed.), Robert Runcie: A Portrait by His Friends (1990), p. 260; Clark, Diaries: Into Politics, pp. 347–8.

  47. MO S496, Falklands Special, 1982.

  Index

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  Aaronovitch, David 334

  ABC 282

  Abelson, Lucy 63–4

  Abigail’s Party 22

  Abrahams, Harold 621, 622–3

  Abse, Leo 375, 531, 556

  Acheson, Dean 114, 790

  Acorn Computers 709, 719–22, 728–9

  Adams, Gerry 564, 565, 569, 598

  Adamson, Lesley 139–40

  Adley, Robert 802

  affluence 18–20, 25, 157–8, 457, 679, 680, 698–9

  Afghanistan 180–81

  Ahlberg, Allan 671, 672, 679

  Aitken, Ian 268

  Aitken, Jonathan 40, 42, 117

  Akass, Jon 343

  Alas, Alas for England (Heren) 13, 307

  Album of the Royal Wedding 609

  alcohol 685, 694

  Aldiss, Brian 770–71

  Aldous, Tony 699

  All Our Tomorrows (Allbeury) 397

  Allara, Jorge 791–2, 793

  Allaun, Frank 232, 348–9

  Allbeury, Ted 397

  Allen, Jim 581

  Allen, Patrick 28–9, 393–4

  advice on getting generous mortgages 29

  advice on getting rid of irradiated bodies 394

  Allen, Peter 274

  Allen, Vic 405

  Alliance see SDP–Liberal Alliance

  Allison, Lincoln 17–18, 132–3, 212–13, 216, 331, 332, 526, 675, 678

  ’Allo ’Allo! 167

  ‘Alms to Oblivion’ (Raven) 144

  Alternative Economic Strategy 193, 352, 457

  Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers see AUEW

  Amery, Julian 273, 754, 843

  Amis, Kingsley 81, 397, 771

  Amis, Martin xxx

  Among the Thugs (Buford) 218

  Anaya, Jorge 739, 741–2, 743

  Anderson, Lindsay 622

  Anderson, Magnus 720

  Anderson, Viv 503, 631

  Annabel’s nightclub 127

  Anne, Princess Royal 600

  Ant, Adam 282, 291–3, 294, 297

  anti-entrepreneurialism 11–12

  Apple computers 711, 729

  Archer, Jeffrey xxiii, 19

  architecture 29–30

  Arden, John 771

  Ardent, HMS 810–11

  ‘Are “Friends” Electric?’ (Tubeway Army) 277–8

  Argentina

  British views of 738–9, 763

  Falkland Islands 732–5, 737

  Falklands War

  casualties 827

  invasion 739–53, 755–6, 764–86

  peace plans 780–82, 784–5, 789, 797

  military prowess, or lack of 826–7

  monetarism 205

  Arguments for Democracy (Benn) 540

  armed forces 832–3 see also British Army; Royal Navy

  Armstrong, Robert 48, 215

  arson attacks on holiday homes in Wales 552–4

  Arthur 624

  Ascension Island 779, 782

  Ashby, Dame Margery Corbett 75–6

  Ashe, Thomas 563

  ‘Ashes to Ashes’ (Bowie) 289–90, 299

  Ashley, Laura 617

  Ashton, Joe 343, 369, 532

  ASLEF 839

  Aspinall, John 127

  Astiz, Alfredo 743

  ASTMS (Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs) 343–4, 353, 374, 536

  Aston Villa, fans of annihilated by nuclear bomb 388

  astrology 808

  athletics 621–32

  Atkins, Humphrey 557, 563, 568, 745, 751, 753

  Atkinson, Sir Fred 452

  Atkinson, Rowan 493, 500, 553

  Atlantic Conveyor 812

  Attlee, Clement 412, 413

  AUEW (Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers) 157, 159, 316, 317–19, 328, 381–2
/>   Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 73, 167, 239–40, 429

  Austin Metro xxiii, xxvii, 304–7, 317, 322–3, 327

  Australia 778

  Authors Take Sides on the Falklands 770–71

  automation 482–3

  Avant Gardening: A Guide to One-Upmanship in the Garden (Titchmarsh) 19

  Babylon 508

  Bader, Sir Douglas 504

  Bailey, Michael 511

  Bainbridge, Beryl 254, 503, 526–7, 675, 682, 686, 699

  Baistow, Tom 775

  Baker, Danny 279–80

  Baker, Kenneth 705, 716–17, 725

  fan of Space Invaders 716–17

  Baker, Tom 66

  Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union 476

  Balfe, Richard 603

  Ballard, J. G. 279, 712

  Ballykelly 598

  Balsall Heath, Birmingham 247

  Bank of England 97, 104, 106, 189, 196, 197, 264, 265, 270, 440, 460

  abolition of exchange controls 108–9

  money supply targets 95

  sterling rate 93, 258–9, 269

  Margaret Thatcher not a fan of 102, 269

  Banks, Tony 529, 531

  Banks-Smith, Nancy 616

  Baptiste, David 631

  Barber, Lynden 296

  Barclay, Patrick 211, 216–17, 223

  Barnes, John 631

  Barnes, Simon 491, 642

  Barnet Press 117

  Barnett, Anthony 757

  Barnsley 480

  Barr, Ann 611, 618–19

  Barratt, Lawrie 28–30

  BASIC 718–19, 720

  Basingstoke 681

  Basle 210–11, 649

  Basnett, David 370–71, 374, 381, 382

  BBC

  and Acorn Computers 727

  Christmas 1981 692–3

  Computer Literacy Project 718, 720–22, 725

  Falklands War coverage 801–3, 802–5

  and riots 521

  and SDP 427

  World Service 814

  BBC Micro computer 709, 717–22, 728

  Beat (pop group) 297, 476

  Beatles 287, 330–31

  Beatty, Warren 623

  Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, 1st Baron 210

  Beckett, Margaret 547, 548

  drips with venom 547

  Beckett, Sir Terence xx, 272

  Bedser, Alec 637

  Beer, Samuel 10

  Beetham, Sir Michael 807

  BEF (British Electric Foundation) 282

  Belfast 558, 559, 566

  Belgium 357–9

  Bell, Sir Ronald 521

  benefits cuts 149, 468

  Benjamin, Floella 503

  Benn, Hilary 536, 603

  Benn, Anthony Wedgwood (Tony)

  believes BBC is an agency of the SDP 427

  capital controls plan 367

  CND 394, 395–6, 400

  colleagues’ disobliging views of 345

  Corby 140

  Daily Star 775

  Department of Industry 13, 342

  disapproves of tower blocks 249

  EEC 170, 176

  exchange controls 109

  Falklands War 734, 754, 769, 788–9, 826, 837

  films Callaghan swimming 354

  Foot calls a bloody liar 415

  Foot calls an unctuous hypocrite 530

  Gang of Four 415, 416

  Gang of Three 365

  general election of 1979 348

  jolly chat with Sir Keith Joseph on train 13

  Labour Party

  Bishop’s Stortford meeting 1980 353–4

  conference 1979 349–51

  conference 1980 366–70, 371

  deputy leadership election 376, 530–48, 550

  electoral college 382

  leadership election 372–4

  Shadow Cabinet 548–9

  Lady Chatterley syndrome 345

  leadership ambitions 346–7, 351, 352

  living in a dream world 837

  lunacy 344, 347, 366, 367

  most misrepresented man since Robert Mugabe 540

  as a Nazi 540, 542–3

  People’s March for Jobs 462

  plan for national revival 533

  potential Pope or Queen 550

  populism 346

  and Primarolo, Dawn 339–40

  reselection of MPs 343

  socialist conversion 344–7

  succumbs to Julie Christie 396

  succumbs to viral infection 535–7

  on Thatcherism 333

  thinks Callaghan is a Tory 788

  thinks Foot is a Tory 349, 354, 754, 826

  thinks other Labour MPs are Tories 373, 533

  thinks SDP are fascists 426

  Bennett, Alan 825

  Bennett, Arnold 595

  Benyon, John 508

  Berry, Stephen (Mass Observation Project) 20, 483

  Best, George 490, 635

  Betjeman, Sir John 602

  Betts, Clive 233

  Bevan, Aneurin 698–9

  Bhatti, Mahmud and Mohammad 225

  Biffen, John 42, 87, 89, 101, 196, 200, 275, 435, 652, 715, 752

  Big Country 161

  ‘big freeze’ of 1981–2 691–2, 693–4, 702

  Biggs-Davison, Sir John 843

  Bilston 673–4

  bingo 772–3

  Birley, Robin 127–8

  Birmingham 232, 247, 253–4, 299, 414–15, 466, 503, 504, 517

  hailed as most go-ahead city in Europe 254

  in reality, a concrete nightmare 254

  obliterated by nuclear bomb 388

  BL see British Leyland

  Black Country 672–5

  Black Country Living Museum 674–5

  Black Forest gateau 36, 120

  Blackburn 679

  Blackpool 366

  Blackwood, Caroline 396

  Blair, David 560, 561

  Blake, David 92, 112, 477

  Blake’s 7 80, 692–3

  Blatherwick, David 568

  Bleasdale, Alan 157, 473–4, 476, 677

  Blitz (magazine) 289

  Blitz (nightclub) 282–6, 288–9, 294, 420

  Blofeld, Henry 636

  Blondie 281

  Bluff Cove air attacks 816

  Blunkett, David 233, 403, 582–5

  Blunt, Sir Anthony 112

  BOA (British Olympic Association) 181, 183

  Boateng, Paul 502, 587

  Bod 394

  Body Shop 69

  ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (Queen) 299

  Bolton 676

  Bond, James 66, 331–2, 647–8

  amused by thought of female scientist 66

  attempts re-entry 66

  impersonated by parrot 647–8

  Bonds, Billy 214

  Boney M 281

  Bonzo, Hector 792, 793

  bookshops 18–19

  Bootle 678

  Boots 128, 505

  Borg, Bjorn 486

  Borges, Jorge Luis 830

  Borneo 769

  Borowiecka, Magda 250

  Botham, Ian xxiii, xxvii, 633–43

  on changing nappies 621

  disapproves of Labour Party 633

  hapless captaincy 635–7

  personification of beef 655

  punch-ups 634–5

  saviour of his country 641–3

  bottled water 130–31

  Bourne & Hollingsworth 702

  Bowie, David 282, 283, 289–90, 291, 292

  ‘cunt in a clown suit’ 289

  Bowles, Peter 85

  Boy George 292, 293, 297

  Boyd, Sir John 537

  Boys from the Blackstuff 73–4, 157, 333, 473–4, 476, 677, 686

  Boyson, Rhodes 520

  Bracknell 681

  Bradbury, Malcolm 334

  Bradford 403, 679

  Bradford, Keith 507

  Bradley, Tom 416

  Bradshaw, John 233

  Bradshaw, Margaret (Mass Observation P
roject) 118–19, 130, 165, 168, 605, 701–2, 766

  Braine, Sir Bernard 736, 743, 754, 803

  Bramall, Sir Edwin 807

  Bramley, Vincent 762–3, 764, 782, 793, 794, 808–9, 812–13, 817–18, 828, 831

  Brandt, Willy 422

  Brasher, Chris 186

  Bravo, Mark 508

  Brearley, Mike 634, 638, 639, 640, 641

  ‘Breathing’ (Bush) 398

  Breslin, John 574–5

  Brexit xxix, 167

  Brideshead Revisited (television series) xxiii, 615–18, 659

  Briers, Richard 128

  Briggs, Raymond 397–8, 830

  Bright, Ray 639

  Bristol 337, 339, 509, 521

  Bristow, Eric 493

  British Antarctic Survey 740–41, 751

  British Army 557, 560, 572, 591, 763–4

  British Electric Foundation (BEF) 282

  British Empire 764–5

  British Leyland

  abysmal productivity 308

  Austin Metro 303–7, 323

  Edwardes, Michael 311–12, 326–7

  finance 313–14, 319, 323–4, 327

  industrial relations 306–7, 308, 311, 314–23

  Longbridge car plant 303–7, 314–15, 318, 319–20, 322–3, 326

  management 308

  Recovery Plan 314–15, 322

  Two Ronnies’ views of 209

  British Steel 138–41, 146–7, 152–3, 161–2, 257, 554

  British Steel (Judas Priest) 673

  Brittan, Leon 89, 393

  Brixton 509–11, 521, 524–5, 604–5

  riots xxiii, 511–14, 524, 588, 649

  ‘Brixton Nick’ (housing project) 249–50

  Broadwater Farm, Tottenham 246, 249

  Brocklebank-Fowler, Christopher 419

  Bromley Council 594

  Brooking, Trevor 207

  Brookside 239, 475

  Brown, Craig 281

  Brown, George 114, 151, 415

  Brown, George Mackay 489

  Brown, Janet 648

  Brown, Ronald 418

  Brown, Tina 613, 615

  Brownjohn, Alan 771

  Bruce-Gardyne, Jock 274, 697

  Brummer, Alex 698

  Brunner, Karl 263–4, 265

  Bruno, Frank 631

  Brussels 357–9

  Bucks Fizz 702

  Budgen, Nicholas 742

  budget deficits 197, 270, 439–42, 448, 455

  Budgets

  1979 99–104

  1980 194–5

  1981 438–43, 447–52, 454–6, 459–60

  1982 706–7

  Buford, Bill 217–22

  Buggles 300

  building societies 240–41

  Bullock, Alan, Baron 415

  Burger King 133

  Burgess, Anthony 616

  Burke, Edmund 343

  Burn, Gordon 486, 487, 489, 493, 494, 496

  Burns, Jimmy 793

  Burns, Terry 42, 265

  Bury 403

 

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