Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

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Mrs Thatcher would almost certainly have been deposed as Conservative leader, perhaps to be replaced by a rival of more moderate views. As always, Sandbrook is attuned as much to popular culture as high politics— Fawlty Towers and Brideshead Revisited were, in their way, as important as the miners’ strike.

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His second book Life Under Fire: How to Build Inner Strength and Thrive Under Pressure [9] was released October 15, 2020. More Than Just A Guide To Self-development, This Work Book Offers You The Inspiration And Boost In Self Confidence To Start Creating New Opportunities. Manufacturing generally contracted by 25 per cent relative to the 1970s, and GDP by 2 per cent in 1981.Allied to this was the fact that it often feels as though Sandbrook conducts some bastardised, literary equivalent of trepanning, cutting a section of his skull away and pouring his brains onto the page with reckless abandon, for us to see in all their glory. I picked this up because I'm a fan of his and Tom Holland's podcast, The Rest is History, and their excellent series on the Falklands War drew heavily from the latter chapters of this book.

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It is engaging an often very funny, though I admit I skipped a couple of the political chapters and let some others drift over me, paying less-than-rapt attention (but seeing how massive this thing is I'm going to forgive myself and count it towards my yearly goal anyway lol). If the book does have an undeclared villain it’s one from the opposite end of the political spectrum: Tony Benn. Margaret Thatcher had come to power in 1979 with a daring plan to reverse Britain's decline into shabbiness and chaos.

This is the story of Tony Benn, Ian Botham and Princess Diana; Joy Division, Chariots of Fire, the Austin Metro and Juliet Bravo; wine bars, Cruise missiles, the ZX Spectrum and the battle for the Falklands. Thatcherism may have seemed at the time to be a reaction to the terminal decline of Keynesian policies to manage aggregate demand, and the standard response to economic crises by activating anti-cyclic policies, ie, stimulating demand and employment with programs financed by government borrowing when recession threatened and government receipts declined. He builds more mini-stories, plots, and characters, whilst Andy describes blokes by what wrist watches they wear which is very cool.