Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s (108 page)
JP Morgan
408
Junor, John
76
Kaufman, Gerald
171
Keays, Sara
172
Keeble, Major Chris
162
Kellner, Peter
152
Kennedy, Charles
177
Kent, Monsignor Bruce
200
Keynes, John Maynard
50
,
60
,
224
,
468
Keynesianism
50
King, Tom
374
Kinnock, Neil
109
; and Callaghan no confidence vote
28
; and the deputy leadership contest (1981)
126–7
; and the general election (1983)
173
; general election results (1987)
427
; and the miners’ strike (1984)
346
,
353–4
; and Murdoch
369
; and the no-rate-fixing rebellion
434–5
; nuclear weapons policy
200
; on Thatcherism
247
Kirker, Richard
328
Kirkpatrick, Jeane
145
Kissinger, Henry
14
Knight, Jill
330
Koestler, Arthur
124
Kraftwerk
278
Kreisky, Bruno
151
Kureishi, Hanif
226
Kuwait
194
Kyoto Protocol
360
Labour Coordinating Committee
110
,
112
‘Labour Isn’t Working’ campaign
29–30
Labour Party: activists
107
; Bermondsey by-election
329
; Callaghan as leader of
5–6
; Clause Four commitment
104
; conference (1976)
16
; conference (1978)
19–20
; conference (1980)
108–9
; and crime
316–17
; deputy leadership contest (1981)
121
,
124–7
; European Parliament election results (1989)
449
; and the Falklands War
142–3
; Foot becomes leader
110
; and the general election (1983)
173
; general election casualty list (1983)
178
; general election results (1979)
41
; general election results (1983)
176
,
177
; general election results (1987)
427
,
428
; and Howe’s first budget
55
; internal disputes
104–8
; leadership battle
104–14
; leadership election rules
113–14
; the ‘Lib–Lab’ pact
7–8
; lost chance
471–2
; mandatory reselection of MPS
106
; manifesto (1979)
35–6
; manifesto (1983)
171–2
; media policy
235
; Militant Tendency
111–13
,
434–5
,
441
,
442
; moderate
104–5
; move to left
104–9
; National Executive Committee (NEC)
106
,
109
,
235
; nuclear weapons policy
200
; popular support (1981)
120
; and the right to buy policy
419
; and the SDP
119
; supporters
107
; trade union support
106–7
,
113–14
; Trotskyite membership
462
; Warrington by-election result
128
; Winter of Discontent
19–24
Laffer, Arthur
184
lager louts
338
Laing, Sir Hector
336
laissez-faire
49
Lambeth
88–9
Lambeth council
436
Larcombe, Ian
302
law and order
315–23
Lawson, Nigel
36
,
49
,
57
,
60
,
467
; budget (1984)
180
; as Chancellor
58
,
179–82
,
184–5
,
382
,
402
,
410
,
412
,
422
,
423
,
424
,
450–1
; and the ERM
444
; and the Falklands War
154
; in first Thatcher Cabinet
63
; as Minister of Energy
76
; and the National Dock Labour Scheme
374
; and North Sea oil
189
,
190
,
193
; and the poll tax
439
; and privatization
381
,
382
; resignation
443
,
449–51
,
452
Le Corbusier
263
Leach, Admiral Sir Henry
138
Lee, Spike
228
Leeson, Nick
405
Lehman Brothers
230
Leigh, Mike
228
Leigh-Pemberton, Robin
407
Leonard, Graham
331
Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement
328
Levin, Bernard
231
Lewis, Robert
328
Liberal Democrats, formation of
427–8
Liberal Party: Bermondsey by-election
329
; and Callaghan no confidence vote
27
; general election (1979)
40
,
41
; and the general election (1983)
173–6
; general election results (1983)
177
; general election results (1987)
427
; the ‘Lib–Lab’ pact
7–8
; Llandudno conference
128–9
; popular support, (1981)
120
; and the SDP
119–20
; SDP merger with
427–8
; SDP–Liberal Alliance
121
,
127–9
,
173–6
,
463–4
‘Lib–Lab’ pact
7–8
Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The
(TV rogramme)
250
Lipsey, David
19–20
Liverpool FC
321
living standards
51
Lloyds
393–4
local government: funding
431–5
; the ‘loony left’
436–7
; power curtailed
437–8
Local Hero
(film)
191
London: Canary Wharf
274
,
372–3
; city administration
436
; Docklands
98
,
265
,
371
,
371–3
; Greater London
80
; Greater London Council
96
,
171
,
231
,
434
,
435–6
; Lloyd’s Building
266
; MI6 building
274
; Paternoster Square
267–8
; planning blight
81
;
see also
Brixton riots
London County Council
264
London Docklands Development Corporation
372
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE)
390
London Marathon
338
London Metals Exchange
46
London Stock Exchange
387–8
; the Big Bang
393–5
; Black Monday
188
,
400–2
; computerization
395–6
; crash (1974)
14
; deregulation
273
,
390–408
; impact of the Big Bang
395–408
; North Sea oil and
195
; OFT’s inquiry
390–3
; scandals
402–5
Long Good Friday, The
(film)
372
‘loony left’
436–7
Lowe, Martin
298–9
Luce, Richard
330
Lukin, Vladimir
215
Lyons, John
351
M25
303
McCartney, Paul
413
McDonald, Ian
155
MacGregor, Ian
72
,
343
,
345
,
351
,
357–8
McGuire, Frank
101
McKay, Sergeant Ian
164–5
McKellen, Sir Ian
330
MacKenzie, Kelvin
151
McLaren, Malcolm
281
,
282
,
283
,
288
McMahon, Kit
407–8
Macmillan, Harold
47
,
63
,
68
,
354
,
385
,
469
McWhirter, Norris
71
McWhirter, Ross
71
Madchester
308–10
Maguire, Frank
26–7
Mail on Sunday
324
Major, John
58
,
274
,
318
,
387
,
443
,
450
,
451
,
455
,
459–60
,
467
,
472
Mallet, David
284–5
Manchester
80
,
86
,
93
; The Haçienda
299–300
,
308
,
310
; Madchester
308–10
Manchester Liberalism
62
Mandelson, Peter
412
manufacturing sector
77–8
,
180
,
476
;
see also
industrial decline
Marquand, David
117–18
Marxism Today
341
Mason, Roy
26
Mates, Michael
440
Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act (1984)
315
Maude, Angus
63
Maxwell, Robert
231
,
237
,
400
,
403–4
Maze Prison
100–3
MDMA
see
Ecstasy
Medvedkova, Olga
208
Menéndez, General Mario
156–7
,
160
,
165–6
mental health care
421
Merchant Ivory Productions
257
Merseyside Development Corporation
98
Merthyr Vale colliery
353
Messenger Group
363
Meyer, Anthony
452–3
Midland Bank
400
Miliband, Ralph
462
Militant Tendency
111–13
,
434–5
,
441
,
442
Milne, Alasdair
243
Minder
(TV programme)
248
Miners’ Defence and Aid Fund
355
miners’ strike (1973–4)
13–14
,
342
miners’ strike (1984)
341–60
; arrests
348
; background
341–6
; casualties
348
,
353
,
358–9
; character
360–1
; community resilience
351–2
; confrontations
347–50
; costs
358–9
; first walk out
345–6
; flying pickets
346
,
347–50
,
376–7
; funding
355–6
; NACODS joins
351
; NUM fund sequestrated
354–5
; outcome
359–60
; peace talks
350–1
,
357–8
; responses to
353–4
; return to work
358
,
359
; the siege of Orgreave coke works
348–50
; and the steel industry
348
; strike ballot
346–7
,
354
; strike breakers
352–3
,
356–7
; TUC and
354
,
357–8
Minford, Patrick
60
Ministry of Sound
307
Minogue, Kylie
289–90
Mitterrand, François
145
,
445–6
,
448
,
465
monetarism
16
,
24
,
39
,
49–56
,
56–71
,
73–4
Money
(Amis)
228–9
money, definition of
51–2
money supply
16
,
24
,
49–50
,
52
,
53
,
60
,
73
,
180
,
181
Monopolies and Mergers Commission
242
,
344
Monty Python
237
Moore, Major General Jeremy
157
,
165–6
Morality and Architecture
(Watkin)
263
Morgan, Kenneth O.
124
Morgan Stanley
393
Morley, Paul
281
Moroder, Giorgio
278
Morrison, Peter
458
