Really enjoying this from 2016.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07p0f9y/the-80s-with-dominic-sandbrook-2-under-pressure
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07p0f9y/the-80s-with-dominic-sandbrook-2-under-pressure
Really enjoying this from 2016.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07p0f9y/the-80s-with-dominic-sandbrook-2-under-pressure
Been watching and enjoying it - I like, but don't always agree with, Sandbrook's willingness to challenge existing assumptions, a couple spring to mind. Firstly he implied that Thatcher's 1983 election victory had nothing to do with the Falklands war and cited polls of the time as support. It may be the case that people claimed they were voting tory for jobs and the economy but then they're quite unlikely to say they were driven to vote a certain way in an at of patriotism and because 'we' won the war, right?
Secondly, that the boom in consumerism in the 1980s was driven by people not policy Nah.
100%.
This was EXACTLY my reaction. It's good entertainment, but he's getting away with murder with some of his sweeping statements. Wrong in both those cases. Especially the second one.