Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s (111 page)

steel industry
348–50

Stirling, James
270
,
273
,
274

Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW)
289–90

Stone, Norman
447

Stone Roses, The
309

Stonewall
330

Stothard, Peter
361

Strange, Steve
283
,
284

strategic arms limitation talks (SALT II)
201

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
213–16
,
219
,
220

Strauss, Norman
70–1

strikes
469
; ballots
38
; days lost to
375
,
376
; dockworkers
350
,
373–5
; Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories
20
; miners (1973–74)
13–14
,
342
; miners (1984)
341–60
,
376–7
; numbers of
377
; secondary picketing
38
,
73
,
346
,
363
,
376
; Wapping print workers
360–71
,
376
; Winter of Discontent
19–24

Strong, Sir Roy
226

Suez crisis
130–1

Sugar, Alan
79
,
239

Suggs (Graham McPherson)
293–4

Sumner, Bernard
310

Sun, The
22
,
33
,
40
,
112
,
151
,
155
,
156
,
173
,
176
,
239
,
241
,
302
,
325
,
326
,
362
,
364
,
456

Sunday Correspondent
371

Sunday Express
76

Sunday Sport
370

Sunday Telegraph
70
,
413

Sunday Times
154
,
155
,
356
,
362
,
366

Sunday Times Rich List
412–13

Swansea
98

synth-pop
276–82

‘Tainted Love’ (song)
280

Talking Heads
(TV programme)
250

Tappenden, Chief Superintendent Ken
305

Tatchell, Peter
329

Tate Gallery
226
,
273

Tate Liverpool
98
,
232

tax and taxation
14
,
432
,
433
; budget (1981)
59
; charities
335
; election campaign (1979)
39
; film investors
260
,
261
; Howe’s first budget
53–4
; Lawson’s first budget
180
; and monetarism
51
; North Sea oil
189
,
192
,
193
; punitive
412
; rates
478
; Reaganomics
184–5
; returns
56
; and the rich
410–12
; tax burden
183
,
185
,
195
,
461

Taylor, Jeremy
304
,
305
,
306
,
307

Taylor report
323

Tebbit, Norman
75
,
99
,
237
,
243
,
350
,
356
,
360
,
376
,
390
,
454
,
457

technology companies
77–9
,
429

teenage pregnancy
315

television: American imports
246
,
248
; broadcasting
234–45
; comedy
250–4
; costume dramas
249
; drama
249–50
; sitcoms
252
; soap operas
246–7
; viewing
245–54
,
470–1
,
484
; women on
250

Tenko
(TV programme)
250

Tennant, Neil
298–9

tennis
485

Terry, Quinlan
266–8

Terry and June
(TV programme)
252

Thames Television
250

Thamesmead
277

Thatcher, Denis
31
,
44
,
45
,
426

Thatcher, Margaret: aims
47–8
; the Anglo-Irish Agreement
429–30
; approval rating
169
; and the arts
227–8
; background
32
,
42–3
; and the BBC
243–4
; becomes MP for Finchley
45
; Brighton bomb attack
356
; and British Leyland
72
; Bruges speech
446–7
; Cabinet (1983)
179
; Cabinet reshuffle (1981)
74–6
; and Callaghan no confidence vote
27
; causes of fall
431
,
443–4
; challenges Heath for party leadership
46–8
; close to despair
76
; combative style
65–6
; comparison with Callaghan
7
,
30–1
; and crime
316
,
317
; critics
61
; cultural interests
227–8
; Denis’s support
45
; determination
48
; and divorce law
315
; Downing Street state rooms restoration
267
; dubbed Iron Lady
33–4
; early political activity
44–5
; economic advisor
60
; economic influences
67–71
; economic policy
62
,
73–6
,
464–7
; education
43–4
; as education secretary
46
; election campaign (1979)
29–34
,
41
; election campaign (1983)
172–3
; election victory (1979)
41–2
,
42
; and the ERM
449–51
; European policy
443–51
,
455–6
; the Falklands factor
169–70
; and the Falklands War
130
,
135
,
136
,
137
,
138
,
139
,
142
,
143–4
,
147
,
148
,
154
,
166
,
167–8
,
172–3
; fall of
451–60
; and feminism
46
; first Cabinet
62–4
; and football hooliganism
322–3
; general election victory (1983)
176–9
; and Gorbachev
216–17
,
218
,
445
; handbagging
66
; Heseltine’s leadership challenge
457–9
; and the hunger strikes
100
,
101
; image
32–3
; and incomes policy
39
; industry career
44
; and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
222
; introduction to manifesto (1979)
36
; and ITV franchises
245
; The lady’s not for turning speech
59
; legacy
461–73
; local government policy
431–2
; and Lord Hanson
398
; marketing
32–4
; marriage
45
; media policy
234–5
; media support
40
; and the miners’ strike (1984)
342
,
343
,
353
,
354
,
359
; and Mitterrand
445–6
,
448
; monetary policy
49–61
; and Murdoch
239
; and mutually assured destruction
198–9
; and the National Dock Labour Scheme
374
; New Year message (1990)
425–6
; No. No. No speech
456
; and North Sea oil
192–3
; nuclear weapons policy
204
,
212–13
,
220
; and the NUM
72
; opposition to
74
; opposition to monetary policy
59–61
; parliamentary private secretaries
64
; personal advisers
66
; political career
45–6
; and the poll tax
441
,
443
; popularity
426–7
; and privatization
382
; problems facing (1991)
426–31
; relationship with America
211–16
; relationship with Cabinet
65–6
; relationship with Howe
66–7
; and religion
331
,
333
; resignation
459
; and SDI
213–14
; social security policy
467–8
; status
473
; tax policy
183
,
184–5
; ‘there s no such thing as society’ claim
311–12
,
469–70
; trade union policy
38
; values
62
; victories
73
; visits Soviet Union
217
,
218
; visits Toxteth
99
; vocal training
32
; War Cabinet
144
,
153
; and wealth inequality
409–10
; Woman of the Year awards
426
; Young Businessman of the Year speech
74

Thatcherism
49
,
247
,
334
,
338
,
373
,
465
,
467
,
473

theatre
223
,
229–31

This is Spinal Tap
(film)
287

Thomas, George
328

Thomas, Hugh
69

Thompson, E. P.
462

Thompson, Brigadier Julian
138
,
157
,
160
,
163

Thorn-EMI
260

Thorneycroft, Lord
29
,
32
,
75

Thorpe, Jeremy
7
,
27
,
119

Threads
(TV programme)
210

The Times
16
,
59–60
,
60
,
70
,
91
,
101
,
143
,
155
,
173
,
241
,
324
,
352
,
362
,
367
,
398
,
404
,
414
,
426

Times Newspapers Ltd
362

Timex
78

Tisdall, Sarah
207

To the Manor Born
(TV programme)
248

Today
363–4

Todd, Ron
368

Top of the Pops
(TV programme)
276
,
281
,
284

Tory Reform Group
61
,
64
,
69
,
385

tower blocks
80

town planning
275

Toxteth
89–90
; riots
93–6
,
319–20

Toynbee, Polly
176

trade balance
373

Trade Union Act (1974)
376

Trade Union Congress: conference (1978)
11
; conference (1988)
379
,
446
; decline of
377
; General Council
23–4
; and the miners’ strike (1984)
354
,
357–8

trade unions: and Callaghan
8–9
; and corporatist government
17–18
; decline of
376–9
; election campaign (1979)
37–8
; and Labour Party leadership
113–14
; mergers
379
; power
377
; powers curbed
73
,
462–3
; support of Labour Party
106–7
; Winter of Discontent
19–24

Transatlantic Corporation
304

Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU)
20–1
,
126
,
350
,
368
,
374
,
375
,
378

Travis, Geoff
291–2
,
295
,
297
,
298

Treasure Hunt
(TV programme)
236

Tribune Group
142–3

Tube, The
(TV programme)
277

Tubeway Army
278

Turner Prize
234

Two Ronnies, The
(TV programme)
252

‘Two Tribes’ (song)
209
,
281–2

Tyler, Bonnie
285

Tyne and Wear
390

U2
292

Uganda
13

Ulster Unionists
26
,
101
,
103
,
481

underclass
313

unemployment
15
,
17
,
50
,
59
,
95
,
312–13
,
461
; (1983)
179
; benefit
82
,
311
; black spots
86
; doubling of
81–2
; fall in
182–3
; fault
82
; impact of
84–5
; rates
83
,
475
; regional variation
83
; scale of
83–4
; school-leavers
85–6
; social security benefits
82–3
; training schemes
180

Unilever
70

Union of Democratic Mineworkers
352
,
359

United Arab Emirates
194

United Nations, and the Falklands War
153–4

United Nations Security Council
144–5

United States of America: Aids deaths
323–4
; air strikes against Libya
243
; charities
335
; defence spending
215
; economic recovery
182
; European nuclear weapons deployment
202–8
; and the Falklands War
131
,
145–7
,
149
; Glass-Steagall Act
393
; invasion of Grenada
204
; the Plaza Accord
182
; pop music market
286–8
; START (strategic arms reduction talks)
219–21
; Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
213–16
,
219
,
220
; sub-prime mortgages
424
; support for IRA
102
; tax and taxation
184
; Thatcher’s relationship with
211–16