Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. The sun never rises
2. Home sweet home
3. The lie of the land
4. Plates in the air
5. The most powerful thing
6. Demands for reform
7. The Terrible Twins
8. What happened to the gentry?
9. Car crazy
10. Little hammers in their muffs
11. The Orange card
12. The black sun
13. Forced to fight
14. The regiment of women
15. The clock stops
16. England¿s Irish question
17. Gay as you like
18. Labour at the summit
19. Where is the match?
20. Get on, or get out
21. Crash
22. The rituals of suburbia
23. Now we can have some fun
24. The country of the dole
25. The Fasci
26. The bigger picture
27. The Spanish tragedy
28. This is absolutely terrible
29. The alteration
30. The march of the ants
31. Would you like an onion?
32. The pangs of austerity
33. The cruel real world
34. An old world
35. The washing machine
36. Plays and players
37. Riots of passage
38. North and south
39. Elvis on a budget
40. This sporting life
41. Old lace and arsenic
42. The new brutalism
43. The soothing dark
44. In place of peace
45. Bugger them all
46. The first shot
47. The fall of Heath
48. The slot machine
49. Let us bring harmony
50. Here she comes
51. The Falklands flare-up
52. The Big Bang
53. The Brighton blast
54. Was she always right?
55. Money, money, money
56. The curtain falls
57. The fall of sterling
58. One¿s bum year
59. Put up or shut up
60. The moral abyss
61. A chapter of accidents
62. The unhappy year
63. The princess leaves the fairy tale

Bibliography
Index

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