Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s (109 page)
mortgage interest relief at source (MIRAS)
422
mortgages
422–4
Mortimer, Penny
227
Mountbatten, Lord, murder of
99
MPs, pairing system
24–5
Muggeridge, Malcolm
327
Mulcahy, Russell
284–5
Mullin, Chris
210
Murdoch, Rupert: buys Premiership’s television rights
323
; and
Pravda
231
; and the siege of Wapping
318
,
360
,
362
,
364–70
; and Sky
238
,
239
,
240–2
,
247
,
248
; Thatcher and
244
Murray, Charles
312–13
Murray, Pete
34
Murrell, Hilda, murder of
210–11
museums, funding
225–6
Museums and Galleries Commission
226
,
232
Musicians’ Union
279
My Beautiful Launderette
(film)
256–7
National Association for Freedom
71
National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers
351
National Coal Board (NCB)
72
,
343
,
345
,
351
National Dock Labour Scheme
350
,
373–5
,
378
National Economic Development Council
377
National Executive Committee (NEC)
105–6
National Film Finance Corporation
261
National Gallery of Scotland
232
National Graphical Association (NGA)
361
,
362–3
,
364–70
National Health Service
387
,
462
; spending
184
,
468–9
National Heritage Memorial Fund
232
,
335
National Lottery
232–3
National Rivers Authority
384
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
312
National Trust
336
National Union of Journalists
362
,
366
,
371
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
72
,
107
,
212
; strike (1984)
341–60
National Union of Railwaymen
38
,
368
nationalized industries
72–3
,
385
NATO
15
,
35
,
57
,
115
,
145
,
198
,
199
,
202
,
203
,
216
,
445
,
461
NatWest
404–5
Neave, Airey, murder of
35
Neighbours
(TV programme)
246–7
,
289
Nestlé
390
New Statesman
(magazine)
155
New Statesman, The
(TV programme)
253
New Zealand
145
News Corporation
241–2
News International
366
,
369
,
370
,
371
;
see also
Rupert Murdoch
News of the World
362
,
364
,
366
,
370
Newton, Tony
327
Nichols, Monsignor Vincent
326
Nield, Robert
60
‘99 Red Balloons’ (song)
208–9
,
282
1922 Committee
47
No Job for a Lady
(TV programme)
250
Nobel Prize winners
482–3
no-rate-fixing rebellion
434–5
Norman, Edward
70
North, Ian
163
North Sea oil: bounty
185–6
; casualties
191
,
192
; depletion policy
193
; discovery
186
; exploitation
186–8
; government control
187–9
; investment in
187
; management
194
; medium-term assessment (1977)
6
; Norwegian production
194
; Piper Alpha disaster
191–2
; price collapse
191
,
192
; prices
52
; privatization
188–9
; production
186
,
190
,
191
,
192
; and the property market
195
; revenue use
192–6
; revenues
6
,
55
,
181
,
189
,
192
,
389
,
467
; and Scotland
190–1
; and the Stock Market
195
; tax revenue
189
,
192
,
193
; workforce
187
,
190
Northern Ireland: the Anglo-Irish Agreement
429–30
; civil unrest
16
; crime rate
315
; devolution
102–3
; and the election campaign (1979)
35
; emergence of Sinn Fein
102
; homosexuality legalised
328
; Northern Ireland Assembly
102–3
; Sands’ funeral
101–2
; Sands wins Fermanagh by-election
101
; the Troubles
99–103
,
430–1
; unemployment
83
north–south divide
419
Not the Nine O’Clock News
(TV programme)
96
,
251–2
,
285
Nott, John
57
,
63
,
135
,
137
,
137–8
,
142
,
143–4
,
145
,
168
,
392
,
408
Notting Hill race riots
86
Nottingham
81
Now That’s What I Call Music!
(album series)
288–9
nuclear weapons
108
,
200
,
212
; anti-nuclear protests
199–201
,
202–9
; arms limitation talks
211
; Church of England and
334
; deterrence
212–13
; independent nuclear deterrent
199
,
203
,
216
,
220
; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
221–2
; mutually assured destruction
198–9
,
214
; nuclear-free zones
209–10
; ownership
204
; pop protest
208–9
; public concern about
210–11
; replacement for Polaris
22
; Reykjavik summit
219–21
; START (strategic arms reduction talks)
219–22
; strategic arms limitation talks (SALT II)
201
; threat of
197–9
; Trident
220
; withdrawal of American
221–2
NUPE
22
Nyman, Michael
272
Oakenfold, Paul
300
Oakley, Robin
417
O’Brien, Denis
259
Office of Fair Trading
391–2
officers of state
480
Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, The
(Barr and York)
414–15
oil: consumption
186
; prices
52
,
186
,
191
,
192
; production
186
;
see also
North Sea oil
Old Grey Whistle Test, The
(TV programme)
276
Old Vic theatre
230
Oldfield, Mike
278
Olivetti
79
Olivier, Laurence
32
Olympic Games
487
One Nation Conservatives
61
one-parent families
314
Only Fools and Horses
(TV programme)
248
,
471
Open University
46
opinion polls
31
,
39–40
,
172
,
173
,
174
,
479
opposition leaders
480
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
285–6
Orgreave coke works
348–50
Owen, David
108
,
110–11
,
113
,
114–21
,
142
,
174
,
175
,
177
,
427
Oxford University Conservative Association
44
Page, Bruce
155
pairing system, MPs
24–5
Pakistani community
84
Palumbo, Peter
270–1
Paradise Postponed
(Mortimer)
228
Parkinson, Cecil
75
,
144
,
172
,
392–3
Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP)
105
,
106
Parsons, Sir Anthony
144
,
151
,
163
Pawley, Martin
270
peace studies
209–10
Peach, Blair
92
Peacock, Alan
244
Peacock committee
244
Pearce, Richard
228
Pebble Island
157
Peel, John
291
pensions
53
Pentz, Mike
167
People’s March for Jobs
83
Per Cent Club
336
Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier
153–4
Peru
153
Petrov, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav
197–8
Pettitt, Ann
205
Pinochet, Augusto
68
Pinter, Harold
227
Piper Alpha disaster
191–2
Pitt, Bill
129
Plater, Alan
249
Plymouth
, HMS
163
Polaris
22
Poliakoff, Stephen
256
police
318
; attitudes towards
86–7
; and Brixton riot
89–90
,
91
; and the miners’ strike (1984)
347
,
349
; Pay Party Unit
305
,
307
; Special Patrol Group (SPG)
89–90
,
96
; stop-and-search tactics
89–90
; and Toxteth riots
93
poll tax
431–5
,
438–43
,
454
,
459
,
469
Pollard, Sidney
79
pop music
208–9
,
282–3
; American market
286–7
; BBC’s influence
276–7
; bestselling albums
483
; charts
276
; the compilation album
288–9
; cross dressing
282–3
; drugs and drug abuse
301–3
,
307
; hard rock
287
; hip hop
287–8
; house
298–308
; indie
290–8
; Madchester
308–10
; New Romantic
283–4
,
286–7
; pop as political protest
208–9
; pop videos
284–6
; promotion
284–6
; punk
278
,
285
; record labels
276
; sales
276
,
278
,
288
; Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW)
289–90
; synth-pop
276–82
; technological developments and
276–7
,
288
Popplewell, Sir Oliver
320–1
,
322–3
popular capitalism
386
popular culture
208–9
Post Office
380
pound (sterling): floated
12–13
; run on
60
; value
15–16
,
17
,
53
,
55
,
57–8
,
181–2
Poundbury
275
poverty
312
Powell, Charles
446
Powell, Colin
454
Pravda
(Brenton)
231
