Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s (107 page)

general election (1987)
298
,
427–8

general elections: (1966)
6
; (1970)
6
; (1974)
7
,
14

General Municipal Workers Union
21
,
23

Germany, reunification of
454–5
;
see also
Berlin Wall

‘Ghost Town’ (song)
85–6
,
293

Gibraltar
430

Gillick, Victoria
315

Gilmour, Sir Ian
61
,
63
,
64
,
70
,
75
,
119–20
,
192

Gladwin, Derek
21

Glamorgan
, HMS
149
,
153
,
164

Glasgow
80–1
,
232
,
321

Glasgow Hillhead by-election
174–5

Glasgow University
339

globalization
55
,
464

Glyn, Andrew
77
,
462

gold standard
58

Golding, John
125–6

Goldman Sachs
393

Goldsmith, Harvey
336

Goldsmith, Sir James
400
,
400–1

Goodison, Sir Nicholas
392–3
,
408

Goose Green
156
,
158
; battle of
160–2

Gorbachev, Mikhail
216–22
,
445
,
454

Gordievsky, Oleg
198
,
217–18

Goths
290

Gough, Piers
265
,
272–3

Gould, Bryan
446

Gow, Ian
64
,
67
,
74
,
453

Gowrie, Lord
231

Graham, Billy
332

Granada Television
249

Grant, Bernie
320

gravediggers, strike
23

Greater London Council
96
,
171
,
231
,
434
,
435–6
;

greed
409–12

Greenham Common peace camp
199
,
202–8
,
221–2

Greenham–Aldermaston–Burghfield human chain
200

Greenspan, Alan
402

Gregson, Peter
343

Grenada, invasion of
204

Groce, Michael
318–19

Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories
20

Guadeloupe, world leaders’ summit
22

Guardian
40
,
74
,
95
,
114
,
155
,
170
,
176
,
207
,
442
,
455

Guinness Four
404

Gulf War
155

Hahn, Frank
60

Haig, Alexander
146
,
148–9
,
153

Hailsham, Lord
63
,
64

Hall, Sir Peter
223
,
230–1

Hamilton, Dundas
404–5

Hamilton, Jimmy
27

Hammond, Eric
364
,
365
,
367
,
371
,
377
,
378

Handsworth riot
318

Hanna, Vincent
127–8

Hanson, Lord James
397–9
,
400

Hanson plc
397–9

Happy Mondays
308–10

Hare, David
227

Harriman, W. Averell
198

Harris, Ralph
68

Harrison, George
259

Hart, David
304

Hart, Judith
154

Hartwell, Lord
371
,
413

Haslam, Dave
300

Hattersley, Roy
26
,
95

Hatton, Derek
434–5

Haughey, Charles
102
,
430

Hauser, Herman
78

Hayek, Friedrich von
67–8

Haynes, Brian
237–8

Hayward, Ron
111

Healey, Denis: as Chancellor
14
,
16–17
,
29–30
,
50
,
52
,
104
; deputy leadership campaign
121
,
125–7
; education
10
; and the Falklands War
172
; general election (1979)
40
; on Joseph
69
; party conference (1980)
108
; party leadership campaign
109
,
110
; and relaxation of exchange controls
55
,
463
; and the SDP
119

Heath, Edward: becomes MP
44
; declarations of state of emergency
462–3
; EEC entry legislation
116
; general election (1974)
6
,
7
,
14
; general election (1979)
32
; incomes policy
18
; premiership (>1970–74)
12
,
12–14
,
186
; and privatization
382
; and the SDP
119
; sulk
62
; Thatcher defeats in leadership campaign
46–8
; and Thatcher’s economic policy
76
; and the trade unions
374

Heathfield, Peter
355

Heaven 17
277
,
286

Heffer, Eric
109

Henderson, Sir Nicholas
80

Henry, Wendy
151

Hermes
, HMS
135
,
138
,
139
,
140
,
149

heroin
316

Heseltine, Michael
199
; cabinet (1983)
179
; as defence secretary
200–1
; Development Corporations
372
,
436
; on Greenham women
205–6
; and Kinnock
173
; leadership challenge
444
,
452–3
,
454
,
457–9
; and the poll tax
432
,
441–2
; seen as social climber
64
; seizes Commons Mace
24–5
; Terry summer house
266
; in Thatcher’s first cabinet
63
; threat to Thatcher
76
,
426
; and Toxteth riots
95–6
,
97–9
; Westland affair
438–9

Hetherington, Alistair
244

Heysel stadium disaster
321–2

Higgins, Terrence
324

High Hopes
(film)
228

Hill, Christopher
462

Hillsborough disaster
322
,
323

Hirst, Paul
67

Hodge, Margaret
434

Hogan, Paul
247

Hollywood
258–9

Home and Away
(TV programme)
247

home ownership
37
,
73
,
418–20
,
422–4

homelessness
420–1

homosexuality
314–15
,
324
,
327–30

Hong Kong
265–6

Hopkins, Michael
265

Horizon
(TV programme)
324

Horn, Trevor
280–2
,
292

Hoskyns, John
70–1

house music
298–308

household spending
85

housing: council
36–7
,
73
,
418–20
; election campaign (1979 )
36–7
; house prices
418
,
424
,
478
; Housing Act (1980)
73
; Housing Act (1988)
421–2
; Housing (Homeless Persons) Act (1977)
420
; housing policy
73
; housing stock
264
; property developers
263–4
; property market
195
; right to buy policy
418–20
; shortage
420–2
; social
421–2
; tower locks
80

Howard’s Way
(TV programme)
247

Howe, Sir Geoffrey
180
,
454
; background
66–7
; budget (1981)
58–60
; as Chancellor
51–2
,
56–9
,
63
,
65
,
66–7
,
74
,
179
,
412
; and the ERM
444
; and the fall of Thatcher
456–7
,
460
; first budget
52–6
; on industrial decline
79–80
; on monetarism
49–50
; relationship with Thatcher
66–7
; resignation
444
,
449–50
; scalded
66
; and SDI
213

Howell, David
63

Hudson, Hugh
255

Hughes, Simon
329

Hull
81

Human League
277
,
279

Hume, Cardinal Basil
326

Hunt, Rex
141

Hurd, Douglas
318
,
320
,
323
,
459

Hussey, Marmaduke
243

Hutchinson, Maxwell
270

hyperinflation
49

Hytner inquiry
86

Illegal Immigration Intelligence Unit
96

Illustrious,
HMS
135

immigration
84
,
428

Imperial Group
399

imports
77

income tax
6
,
14
,
39
,
53–4
,
179
,
180
,
195
,
410–12
,
433

incomes policy
39
,
463

Independent
371

Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA)
235
,
242
,
244
,
246
,
256

Independent on Sunday
454

indie music
290–8

industrial decline
29
,
58
,
58–9
,
60–1
,
77–85
,
465
,
476

inflation
14
,
15
,
16
,
17
,
18
,
24
,
38–9
,
40
,
50
,
51
,
54
,
56
,
73–4
,
180
,
186
,
196
,
424
,
450–1
,
462
,
475
; pay policy
17–18
,
19–20
,
51

Ingham, Bernard
66
,
450

INLA
35

Inland Revenue Staff Federation 8n

Inner London Education Authority (ILEA)
437

Inside Right
(Gilmour)
61

Inspector Morse
(TV programme)
249

Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA)
68
,
69

interest rates
13
,
52
,
56–8
,
73
,
181
,
402
,
450–1

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
221–2

international bond and currency markets
388–90

International Monetary Fund
15
,
16
,
104

investment banking
393–5
,
404–5
,
409

Invincible
, HMS
139
,
140
,
149

IRA
469
; American support for
102
; Brighton bomb attack
296–7
,
356
; Enniskillen bombing
430–1
; hunger strikes
100–3
; Libyan support
430
; murder of Gow
453
; murder of Ross McWhirter
71
; spectaculars
99
; terror campaign
102

Iran
186
,
316

Irish Republic
102–3
,
429–30

Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC)
348

Isaacs, Jeremy
235
,
236–7

Islamic revolution
316

Island Records
291
,
292
,
298

Israel
13

Italy
145
,
445

ITV
234
,
243
,
244–5
,
246
,
470
,
471

Jack, Ian
84–5

Jacomb, Martin
381

Japan
182

Japanese investment
390

Jarman, Derek
237
,
296

Jay, Peter
8

Jay, Tamsin
8

Jenkin, Patrick
63

Jenkins, Arthur
117

Jenkins, Charles
272

Jenkins, David, Bishop of Durham
333

Jenkins, Peter
155
,
170

Jenkins, Roy
10
,
110–11
,
114–21
,
128
,
142
,
173
,
174–5
,
177
,
422

Jewel in the Crown, The
(TV programme)
249

Jewish community
333

Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers
289

John, Elton
285

John, Helen
205

John Paul II, Pope
202
,
332

Johnson, Frank
70
,
174

Johnson, Paul
70

Johnson, Rebecca
205

Jones, Lieutenant Colonel H.
161–2

Jones, Jack
20

Joseph, Sir Keith
35
,
46–7
,
62
,
63
,
68–9
,
71–2
,
75
,
460

Joy Division
299