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Who Dares Wins

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by Dominic Sandbrook


  Bolton 23, 157, 676

  Bradford 679

  consumerism 699

  council housing 245–6, 249

  Fort Beswick estate, Manchester 249

  furnishings 23

  industrial decline 676, 679–80

  liberal utopianism 332

  on racism 506

  Sunderland 245–6, 471, 472–3, 506

  tower blocks 247

  trade unions 157

  unemployment 471, 472–3, 482

  Wigan 679

  working-class life 679–80

  Searchlight 506–7

  seaside holidays 164–5

  Selby, Vera 499

  self-employment 68–9

  Serle, Chris 721

  services sector xxiv, 17, 261, 682, 723

  Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 70, 499

  Sex Pistols 280, 287, 292

  sexual harassment 596

  shabbiness 6

  Shackleton, Ernest 740

  ‘Shaddap You Face’ (Dolce) 291

  Shann, Rosalie 63

  Shapely, Peter 248

  Shaw, Roy 578–9

  Sheffield 233, 582–5

  Sheffield, HMS 794–9, 802

  Sheffield Wednesday FC 213–14

  Sheppard, David 182

  Sherbourne, Stephen 89

  Sherman, Alfred 48, 89, 147–8, 705

  shipbuilding 558

  Shipley, Peter 401

  Shirley, John 809

  Shirley, Stephanie 69

  shop stewards 311, 314–15, 316

  shopping 693–7, 698–702

  shopping malls 699–700

  longest lavatory wall in Europe 253

  Shore, Peter 170, 368, 374, 375, 376, 431, 534–5, 599, 736

  Shulman, Milton 97

  Shulman, Nicola 613

  Signing Off (UB40) 475

  Silkin, John 361, 374, 376, 539, 541, 543, 545–6

  Sillitoe, Alan 625, 771

  Simpson, Bob 138–9

  Simpson, John 80–81, 175

  Sinclair, Clive xxiii, 708, 709–11, 713, 718–19, 720, 723–4, 725, 727, 729–30

  Sinn Fein 571–3, 598

  Sir Galahad, RFA 816, 829

  Sirs, Bill 146–7, 152

  Skelton, Noel 230

  skinheads 220–21

  Skinner, Dennis 201, 703

  slacks, looking super in 61

  Sloane Rangers 611–12, 619

  smart technology 27

  Smash Hits 278, 282, 288

  Smith, David 196, 262–3, 686

  Smith, Delia 19, 123

  Smith, Geoffrey (columnist) 275

  Smith, Geoffrey (gardener) 19

  Smith, Harvey 635

  Smith, Ian 171

  Smith, John 750, 751, 755

  Smith, Joyce 62

  Smith, Mel 493

  smoking 129

  snooker xv, 484–99

  Snow, Peter 801

  Soames, Christopher, Baron 87, 190, 652, 655–6, 658

  Soames, Rupert 613

  Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) 566

  Social Democratic Party see also Gang of Four; Gang of Three; SDP–Liberal Alliance

  Benn, Tony 538

  by-elections 419, 429–32

  Clark, Alan 436

  conference 1981 432

  Conservative Party 419

  Crosby by-election 665–7

  Croydon North West by-election 664–5

  EEC 361

  fail to win support of the Human League 420

  Gilmour, Sir Ian 660

  Gow, Ian 653

  hand-job merchants 667

  Labour Party, defections from 651

  launch 419–21

  leadership 422–3

  Limehouse Declaration 411, 412–14, 424, 425, 435–6

  lounge lizards 427

  manifesto 421

  marketing 421–2

  media creation 427

  meritocrats 428–9

  opinion polls 421, 422, 432, 705–6

  Volvo people 428

  Warrington by-election 429–32, 651

  social security 468–9

  socialism 340–42, 425

  SodaStream 684

  Soft Cell 291, 659

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 836

  Sons and Lovers (Lawrence) 676

  Sony 283

  Sony Walkman 301–2

  Sounds 281, 286, 287, 290, 297, 525

  sources xxix–xxxi

  South Africa 444

  South Georgia 731, 740–42, 743, 744–5, 783–4, 785, 787–8

  South Yorkshire 149–50, 582

  and making of Sebastian Coe 626

  ‘Socialist Republic of’ 403, 584–5, 593

  Southall 516–17, 523, 638, 649

  Southampton 414

  Southern Thule 734, 741

  Southwood, Angela 553

  Southwyck House 249–50

  ‘Souvenir’ (OMD) 299

  sovereign wealth funds 257–8

  Soviet Union 179–86, 383–8, 389, 405, 632, 778

  Space Invaders xxx, 522, 716–17

  Spain 732, 778

  Spandau Ballet xxiii, 286, 290, 291, 292, 294, 296

  Spare Rib 59

  Spark, Muriel 771

  Sparkbrook, Birmingham 503

  Sparkes, Jayne 285

  Sparkhill, Birmingham 247

  Speccy Nation (Whitehead) 709

  Special Patrol Group (SPG) 340, 511

  Specials xxiii, 297, 475, 525

  Spectator 52, 55, 365, 413–14, 428, 453, 834

  Spencer, Lady Diana see Diana, Princess of Wales

  spices 121

  Spinners 535

  Spitting Image 78, 164, 716

  sponsorship 137, 299, 492

  Spufford, Francis 725

  SS-20 missiles 389

  ‘Stand Down Margaret’ (Beat) 297, 476

  Stanley (Port Stanley) 731–2, 755–6, 819–20, 821

  Star 403

  ‘Starman’ (Bowie) 291

  Stasi 405

  stately homes 5

  Stayt, David 58–9

  Steel, David 359, 365, 414, 426, 432–3

  prepares for government 433

  steel industry 138–41, 146–53, 160–62, 554, 673–4, 688–9

  steel strike (1980) 146–52

  Steeltown (Big Country) 161

  Stephens, Caroline 648

  Stephenson, Hugh 430

  Stewart, Graham 258

  Stewart, Rod 154, 281, 295

  Stirling, David xix

  Stock, Aitken and Waterman 296

  Stock Exchange 68

  Stoke 674

  Stokes, John 743

  Stowe, Ken 33

  Strange, Steve 282–3, 289, 290, 294

  Strauss, Norman 89, 143–4

  street parties 604, 605

  Street-Porter, Janet 286

  Streisand, Barbra 281

  Strevens, Barry 40–41, 113

  strikes 142–3, 145–52, 158, 160, 308, 315, 317–18, 436

  Stuart, Moira 503

  students 333–4

  Sturridge, Charles 616

  Sudjic, Deyan 699

  Suez crisis 7, 432, 752, 759, 838

  Falklands comparisons 753, 760, 768, 776, 798, 838

  suicide 469–70, 472–3, 828

  Summer, Donna 281

  Sumner, Bernard 252

  Sun

  Benn, Tony 540, 773

  Budget of 1981 449, 451

  Daily Mirror Falklands War coverage 802

  Diana, Princess of Wales 610

  EEC budget 174

  Falklands War 753, 757, 757, 772–5, 789, 801, 825

  BBC coverage 802

  Belgrano sinking 794

  Goose Green, Battle of 814

  ‘GOTCHA’ headline 794

  San Carlos, Battle of 811

  Sheffield, HMS 798

  South Georgia 787

  ‘STICK IT UP YOUR JUNTA’ 773–4

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nbsp; Foot, Michael 377, 549

  Foreign Office 758

  gay rights 590

  GLC women’s committee 597

  Headingley test match 1981 638

  Labour Party 343, 350

  Livingstone, Ken 576, 580, 588, 589, 590, 592, 592–3, 598

  Panorama 803, 804

  riots 501, 509, 519

  Runcie, Robert 843

  SDP 427, 428

  seven tribes of Britain 293

  Strevens, Barry 113

  Thatcher, Margaret

  appearance 62

  cooking 117

  diet 63

  potential replacements for 661

  Thatcherism 52

  Warrington by-election 432

  Whitehouse, Mary 86

  Williams, Shirley 430

  Sunday Express 670

  Benn, Tony 540, 544

  EEC budget 177

  England football team 207

  hunger strikes 570

  Moscow Olympics 183

  rejoices at existence of Margaret Thatcher 114, 198–9

  riots 509, 521

  Soviet Union 388

  spring 1982 706

  trade unions 150

  Williams, Shirley 63–4

  Sunday Mirror 496, 610

  Sunday People 627, 636

  Sunday Telegraph 424, 487, 765

  Sunday Times

  bright young things 612–13

  crusade of national conversion 98

  economic recovery of UK 263

  Edwardes, Michael 326

  Falkland Islands 731

  Falklands War 831

  Foot, Michael, sued by 376

  Labour Party deputy leadership election 1981 540

  love in London 619

  microcomputer revolution 716

  Milton Keynes shopping centre 699

  most prosperous towns in Britain 685

  riots 523

  West Midlands 674

  Sunderland 245–6, 328, 469, 471, 472–3, 506

  supermarkets 700–701

  ‘supply-side’ theory 444

  ‘sus’ laws 508

  Swan & Edgar 702

  Swift, Charlie 685

  synthesizers 282, 301

  tailors 11, 551

  ‘Tainted Love’ (Soft Cell) 291, 659

  Tamworth 681

  Tatler 613–14, 615

  Taunton 680–81

  tax exiles 99–100

  tax reduction 94, 99–101, 103, 104

  Taylor, Andy 295

  Taylor, Dennis 490

  Taylor, Sir Frank 271

  Taylor, John 295, 296

  Taylor, Peter 317, 564

  Taylor, Robert 159, 664

  tea 118, 120

  Tebbit, Norman 87, 158–9, 325, 468, 522, 656–8, 670, 767–8

  bicycle-riding father 663

  as a polecat 656

  television

  adverts 305

  Christmas 692–3

  comedy 332

  commercials 75

  Falklands War 799

  Iranian Embassy siege xvii–xviii

  Royal Wedding 605

  sales of 25

  Welsh language 555–7

  Tenko 67, 690

  tennis 488

  terrorism xvi, 557–8, 559–61, 572, 598, 693 see also IRA

  Terry and June 686

  textile industry 659

  TGWU (Transport and General Workers’ Union) 156–7, 158, 159, 318, 374, 543, 545–6

  That Was the Week That Was 332

  Thatcher, Denis xix, 76, 171, 446–7, 559, 670, 732, 801, 812 see also Private Eye

  Thatcher, Margaret xxii

  admits she is not as kind as Jesus 43

  appearance 61–2, 63–4

  arguing 36, 42

  armed forces 777

  BBC 802, 803

  beliefs about xxiv–xxv

  borrowing 696–7

  British industry, competitiveness of 272

  Budget of 1981 438–43, 450

  Cabinet 86–8, 652–9

  Callaghan, Jim 372

  Chariots of Fire 624

  childcare 76

  Christmas 1979 113

  clears up dog excrement 41

  comic aspects 34

  Communism 179

  computers 716, 723–4

  concerned at prospect of being jerked off 35

  confidence, lack of 40

  Conservative Party

  conference 1980 267–9

  conference 1981 662–4

  membership 47

  risk of revolt 661, 669

  conspiracies against 460

  contempt for consensus 79–80, 660

  cooking 116–18

  correspondence 42–3, 206

  Cruise missiles 390

  crusade of national conversion 98

  cries 40, 783, 795, 816, 822

  cries with laughter 34

  dancing 446

  defence spending 388–91

  directness 42

  disappointment in 661

  domesticity 75–7

  dramatic skills 34

  duty 42–3

  economy 9, 194, 198, 263

  EEC 169–70, 173, 178–9

  egalitarianism 612

  emotionalism 39–41, 795–6

  exchange controls 109, 110

  Falkland Islands 734–5, 738, 740, 779–80

  Falklands War 753, 755, 759, 784–6, 797, 821–3, 832–3, 839–40

  ‘Falklands factor’ 835–6

  recapture of South Georgia 786

  tears after Bluff Cove air attacks 816

  tears after Sheffield sinking 795

  War Cabinet 776–7

  as war leader 789, 805–6, 807, 833–4

  femininity 78–83

  first arrival at Downing Street as Prime Minister 31–3, 56

  first kiss 38

  flirts with parrot 647–8

  flirts with Simpson, John 80–81

  food 116–18

  on Foot, Michael 550

  foreign policy 170–71

  good housekeeping 52–3

  as grocer’s daughter 172

  Grantham 53

  grudges 40

  Heath, Edward, attack by 274–5

  hideous birthday cake 269

  and history 49–50

  holiday in Switzerland 263–4

  home ownership 30, 230–31

  Hoskyns on failings of 650–51

  as housewife 38, 116–18

  imagination, lack of 36–7

  imagines an opera about herself 57

  inequality 188

  inflation 94, 696

  insists you can see the moon and the stars from Spalding 37

  inspects an enormous tool 35

  interest rates 102, 105

  Iranian Embassy siege xvi–xix

  Jewish advisers 89

  kindness 40–41, 42–3

  Kipling, Rudyard 789–90

  kisses Kevin Keegan 207

  knickers 63

  as a Liberal in disguise 45–7

  love of coronation chicken 118

  love of Liverpool FC 206

  love of snooker 496–7, 499

  MacGregor, Ian 153

  materialism 37–8

  Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) 196

  misogynistic abuse of 82–3

  morality 50–52

  Moscow Olympics 181–6

  as ‘Mrs Thatcher’ xxx–xxxi

  national decline 48–9

  as national figurehead 54–6, 833–4

  national pride 837–8

  nicknames 82–3

  as ‘Northern chemist’ 614

  Northern Ireland 559–61

  ‘not for turning’ 269

  optimism 434–5

  ‘ordinary people’ 52–3

  parsimoniousness 37–8

  patriotism xxvi–xxvii, 49–50, 789–90, 833–4

  peace movement 405

  pers
onas 33–5

  philistinism, or lack of 36

  political appointments 86–90

  popularity 54, 459–60, 648, 661–2, 669, 705, 789, 834–5

  populism xxvi–xxvii, 52

  pragmatism 47–8

  as Queen Bee 77

  reading 35

  Reagan, Ronald 443–7

  regards ideas as so much Black Forest gateau 36

  regards relaxing for its own sake as deranged 38

  rejects idea of electrocuting Heath with cattle prod 189

  religion 43, 51–2

  Right to Buy 230–31, 243

  riots 518

  risk-averseness 101

  romance with Emlyn Hughes 206–7

  rudeness 41–2, 79–80

  and SAS xix–xx

  as Servalan 80

  sex appeal 81–2

  Sinclair, Clive 723–4

  slacks, would look super in 61

  sleep 39–40

  smoothness, or lack of 89

  sounds like a suburban estate agent’s wife 33

  steel strike 151–2

  talks to people as if their dogs have died 33

  tantrums 265–6

  tastes 35–6, 496

  tax reduction 99–100, 101

  telephones James Bond 647

  terrorism 559–60

  trade unions 144

  as transformative xxiv

  Turin football riot 209

  unemployment 475–9, 482

  United States, trip 1981 443–7

  unlikely to invest in a pair of Levi’s 62

  voice 33

  walk 34

  weight 62–3

  West Germany 169

  whips herself into a gigantic lather 151

  as the Wizard of Oz 35

  as a woman pretending to be a man 78–83

  women’s rights 76–8

  work ethic 38–9

  works herself into a blazing fury 264

  Thatcher Foundation xxix

  Thatcherism 43–54, 78–9, 341

  Theroux, Paul

  amateurism and uncompetitiveness of Britain 11

  bookshops 19

  Butlin’s 164

  Falklands War 793, 795, 800–801

  hotels 5–6

  London 6, 11

  national decline 519

  national self-deprecation 12

  Northern Ireland 558–9

  poverty 18

  punks 280

  racism 505

  Scottish nationalism 555

  steam-train enthusiasts 284

  Wales, arson attacks 554

  Wigan 687

  Theseus and the Monetaur 693

  The Third World War (Hackett) 388

  Third World War, books about 388, 397

  Thomas, Christopher 559

  Thomas, Hugh 835

  Thomas, Mike 420

  Thomas, R. S. 402

  Thompson, Alan 637

  Thompson, Daley 185, 491, 628–32, 642

  denies being black 631

  doesn’t give a damn who’s going to Moscow 184

  Thompson, Dorothy 402

  Thompson, E. P. 390, 394, 400, 404, 405

  Thompson, Julian 762, 813, 833

  Thorburn, Cliff xv, 491

  Thorne, David 561

  Thorneycroft, Peter, Baron 435, 460

  Three Tuns, Eastwood 676

  Time Out 332–3

  The Times

  affluence 698

  Argentina 738–9

 

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