Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

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The broader story, however, reveals a conflict brewing between rival media providers and the fractures within the Labour Party, foreshadowing issues that have become relevant again only recently. In April 2018, a team of ten adventurers, including Fox, embarked on an expedition to the North Pole.

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Still he continues to use the same trademark style of a busy narrative interspersed with seemingly standalone chapters on popular culture. A thousand pages for just three years might seem excessive, but those three years saw almost seismic shifts in British life. I’m far from taking a 100% anti-Falklands War standpoint – after all, the Argentinian junta had ‘disappeared’ countless left wingers and activists and were pretty much fully paid up Fascists – but more balance would have been needed. On the other, it means you get a lot of detail and analysis--occasionally not entirely necessary or a bit repetitive. Things had been so relentlessly grim over the preceding seven or eight months that any sort of new start was welcome.This is, as far as I am aware, the fifth in a series of books, which take Britain from 1976 to 1982.

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Sandbrook’s Who Dares Wins is the story of just three years in the history of Britain, 1979 to 1982. Sandbrook's portrayal of Maggie Thatcher may-she-rest-in-piss is INCREDIBLY partisan: in favor of, to be specific. Despite all the pressures, she found the time to scribble a letter of thanks for such a ‘very special gift’: Not only is it exquisite in itself, and it is, but it came as a wonderful surprise and at a difficult time just when I needed a little thoughtfulness and kindliness. The case against him is meticulously rendered by Sandbrook and includes duplicity, opportunism, vanity, “sectarian intolerance” and “ruthless pursuit of internal feuds”.Manufacturing generally contracted by 25 per cent relative to the 1970s, and GDP by 2 per cent in 1981. It's when, not that far into the book, that a crusty older officer is referred to as a Sandhurst graduate that my antennae really began to twitch. I may not have known what he meant by certain things, but I was free to google it in my own time rather than having it there in the book, taking up space.

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Just how one single politician (aside from truly despotic dictators) can attract such animosity, on such a wide scale, has always intrigued me. This work of military fiction was written by former SAS corporal, presenter and best selling author Chris Ryan. In fact, the extended period this volume has taken to get to market has done much to increase its relevance to the modern reader. And the cast of characters - everybody from Margaret Thatcher, Tony Benn and Ken Livingstone to Ian Botham, Simon Le Bon and Clive Sinclair - is almost Dickensian in its lurid variety. That just seems like a bit of an oversight to me given that character was involved quite a lot in the final act, and just given the whole spy thing in general.Wine bars proliferated, and with them a music to match their new clientele’s aspirations – Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and all their be-frilled confrères. It covers probably the single most controversial period in my lifetime: the first Thatcher administration, which still evokes extremely strong feelings today. During the opening years of her premiership, Britain saw vicious riots spreading throughout the country, in places as far apart as Brixton, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Cardiff.