Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s (110 page)
Price Is Right, The
(TV programme)
245–6
Prior, Jim
38
,
63
,
65
,
71
,
74
,
75
,
102
,
119
,
179
,
376
prison population
318
privatization
35
,
48
,
76
,
170–1
,
188–9
,
380–7
,
390
,
418–20
,
463
Proctor, Harvey
329
Proops, Marjory
176
property
see
housing
proportional representation
115
Protect and Survive
210
Public Order Act (1986)
322
public sector borrowing requirement (PSBR)
52
,
53
,
56–7
,
60
,
180
,
184–5
,
467
public spending
16
,
50
,
179
,
183–5
,
467–9
,
477
public utilities, privatization
384–5
Pym, Francis
57
,
63
,
143
,
144
,
148–9
,
154
,
167–8
,
179
Queen Elizabeth II
(liner)
140
Question Time
(TV programme)
179
racial discrimination (and the riots of 1981)
89–90
,
95
; (and the riots of 1985)
318–20
Radio 1
276
Rampling, Danny
300
Rank and File Mobilizing Committee
112
Rates Act (1984)
434
raves
301–8
Read, Mike
281
Reagan, Ronald: arms limitation talks
211–12
; assassination attempt
202
; and the Cold War
199
; economic policy
184–5
; evil empire comment
203–4
; and the Falklands War
145
,
146
,
151
; and SDI
213
; signs Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
221
; START talks
219–21
Reaganomics
184–5
Red Nose Day
338
Red Star
33
Red Wedge
298
Rees-Mogg, Sir William
224
Reid, Alec
431
‘Relax’ (song)
280–1
religion
330–5
Revolution
(film)
255
Reykjavik summit
219–21
Reynolds Girls
290
Richmond, Riverside
267–8
Ridley, Nicholas
64
,
168
,
181
,
374
,
420
,
439
,
450
,
454–5
,
464
Rifkind, Malcolm
441
right to buy policy
418–20
Rio Treaty
145
riots (1981)
469
; arrests
94
; background
85–7
; Bristol
86
; Brixton
88–92
,
94
,
95
; casualties
91
,
93
,
94
; causes
95–6
; damage
91
,
93
; government response
97–9
; investigation
91–2
; looting
93
; march ban
94–5
; outbreak
86–8
; police and
86–7
,
89–90
,
91
,
93
,
94
; and racial discrimination
89–90
,
92
,
95
; replicated
93–4
; Scarman Report
96–7
; Southall
92
; television coverage
91
; Toxteth
93–6
riots (1985)
469
; Brixton
318–19
; Handsworth
318
; Toxteth
319–20
Rittner, Luke
224–5
Road to Wigan Pier, The
(Orwell)
84
,
85
Roberts, Alfred
42–3
Roberts, Beatrice
42
Robertson, Patrick
447
Robinson, Bruce
259
Robinson, Dave
292
Rodgers, Bill
22
,
23
,
110–11
,
113
,
114–21
,
177
Rolling Stone
287
Rolls-Royce
384
Roman Catholic Church
331–2
Romans in Britain, The
(Brenton)
231
Rooke, Sir Denis
411
Rose, David
256
Ross, Stephen
420
Rossington
352
Royal Navy
57
,
135–6
; and the Falklands War
139
,
158–60
,
162–4
RUC
99
Ruddock, John
200
rugby
486
Runcie, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury
328
,
331
Rushdie, Salman
228
Ryder, Paul
308–10
Ryder, Shaun
308–10
Saatchi, Maurice
400
Saatchi & Saatchi
29–30
,
33
,
172
,
400
,
411
Saatchi Gallery
234
St John Stevas, Norman
62
,
74
,
75
,
223
,
225
St John Wilson, Colin
270
St Mungo Association
421
Sakharov, Andrei
218
Salvation Army
421
Sampson, Anthony
176
San Carlos Bay
157–8
Sands, Bobby
100–2
Satanic Verses, The
(Rushdie)
228
satellite television
234
,
237–42
,
471
Saudi Arabia
194
Saunders, Ernest
404
Scanlon, Hugh
9
Scargill, Arthur
107
,
212
; background
342
; defiance
356–7
; elected NUM president
343
; and the end of the strike
358
; and Gaddafi
355–6
; the siege of Orgreave coke works
349–50
; Soviet Union links
355
; and the steel industry
348
; strike ballot
346–7
; strike demands
350–1
; TUC and
354
,
357–8
; vision
341–2
Scarman, Lord
91–2
,
96–7
Scarman Report
96–7
Schmidt, Helmut
15
Schonfield, Victor
112
Scotland: crime rate
315
; devolution
11
,
25–6
; economy
428–9
; electronics industry,
429
; financial services,
429
; general election results (1987)
428
; and North Sea oil
190–1
; and the poll tax
438
,
439
,
440–1
; unemployment
83
,
475
; the West Lothian Question
25
;
see also
Church of Scotland; Edinburgh; Glasgow
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
232
Scottish National Party
25–6
,
190
,
428
,
441
,
481
Scruton, Roger
447
SDP–Liberal Alliance
121
,
127–9
,
173–6
,
427
,
463–4
SEAQ (Stock Exchange Automated Quotations)
390
Secret Society
(TV programme)
243
Securities and Futures Authority (SFA)
402
Seldon, Arthur
68
Self, John
229
Serious Money
(Churchill)
229–30
Sex Discrimination Act (1975)
340
Shah, Eddie
363–4
Shaw, Sir Roy
225
Sheffield
, HMS
152
Shell
188
Sheridan, Tommy
441
Simonds-Gooding, Anthony
240
,
242
Simpson, John
268
Simpsons, The
(TV programme)
246
Sinclair, Clive
78–9
Sinclair Research
78–9
Single European Act
448
single mothers
314
Sir Galahad
(logistical support ship)
159
,
163
Sir Lancelot
(logistical support ship)
159
Sir Tristram
(logistical support ship)
163
Sirs, Bill
348
sitcoms
252–3
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
273
Sloane Rangers
258
,
413–16
,
416–17
,
417
slums, replacement of
80
Smith, Adam
464
Smith, Chris
329
Smith, John
451
Smiths, The
294–8
Soames, Christopher
14
,
61
,
63
,
75
soap operas
246–7
Social Democratic Party (SDP)
110
,
114–21
,
127–8
,
142
,
173–6
,
177
,
427
; effect on Labour Party share of vote,
472
; Gang of Four
114–21
,
124
,
174–5
,
177
,
427
; Gang of Three
113
,
114
social security: Social Security Act (1980)
347
; social security benefits
82–3
; social security budget
184
,
467–8
; supplementary benefit
82–3
Socialist Unity
35
Socialist Workers’ Party
92
Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT)
361
,
364–70
,
376
Southall riot
92
Soviet Peace Committee
208
Soviet Union: and Able Archer exercise
198
; Anglo-Soviet relations
217–18
; as Evil Empire
203–4
; fall of
454
,
462
;
glasnost
218
; Greenham women visit
208
; invasion of Afghanistan
201
,
202
,
316
; leadership
216–17
; and mutually assured destruction
198–9
; nuclear missile scare
197–8
; nuclear weapons
203
; response to SDI
214–15
; Scargill’s links with
355
; shoots down South Korean Boeing 747
197
; stagnation and decline
214–15
; START (strategic arms reduction talks)
219–21
; Thatcher visits
217
,
218
; Warsaw Pact commitment cut
222
Spall, Jack
410
Special Patrol Group (SPG)
89–90
,
96
Spitting Image
(TV programme)
211
,
253–4
Springsteen, Bruce
287
Stallard, Jock
27