I’ve rewatched 150 episodes of Brookside – here’s how the soap captured the nuances of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain: The Grant family, some of Brookside's most famous characters. Lime Pictures / STV Player If you want to understand how Margaret Thatcher shaped Britain, revisiting one particular 1980s soap opera is a great place to start. Brookside, …
How Terry Hall defined the sound of youth and disillusionment in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain: Terry Hall, who has died after a short illness at 63, was the voice of The Specials, an iconic band that bridged the youth sub-cultures and mainstream pop of the late 1970s and early 1980s, embodying the sound of disaffection in …
Hong Kong: does British offer of citizenship to Hongkongers violate Thatcher’s deal with China?: China has reacted angrily to an offer by the UK government to allow all Hong Kong citizens with a British National (Overseas) passport the right to come and live in the UK and give them a pathway to citizenship. China alleges …
Revealed: Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Marshall Plan for southern Africa’: Margaret Thatcher wooed the South African government with promises of a “Marshall Plan for southern Africa” and helped “save” the independence of Namibia, according to newly released papers. The events they cover provide an insight into a March 1989 visit to Britain by the South African foreign …