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Maggie Thatcher (My Part in Her Downfall)

Tony Stowers

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Description:These are notes from my diaries from 1982 to 1984, so I don’t presume they’ll interest anyone but me (and maybe a few others) who lived around Darlington, Co. Durham, England, between 1982 and 1984. Unless, that is, you're mildly curious about what it was like to be young and live under the Conservative government of the late Margaret Thatcher who'd been Prime Minister since 1979.In 1982 came the Falklands War with Argentina, American Cruise Missiles, Greenham Common, the Cold War (nuclear war seemed always imminent back then thanks to President Reagan and his sabre-rattling) and in '83 and '84 the Miner’s Strike, Scargill, the Brighton Bomb, the IRA's armed campaign, famine in Ethiopia and the first surreptitious carving up of the Welfare State by the selling off council houses. On a local level it shows Darlington Arts Centre and Drama Centre in the days when culture wasn't measured against demand and supply but was a harvest-gift for all. And, on an individual level, you can have a good laugh at me: naïve, dumb and clumsy, living at home at 19 and thinking the world owed him a living. True, he’d lost his virginity but knew nothing about women and though he started with long hair and denim, finished as an anarchist with a blonde Mohican. Popular music - Culture Club, FGTH, The Cure to name but a few - was considered “low” culture, but in fact for millions of working and middle classes it gave us slogans to live by and “tribes” to associate with. In my environment almost all information came through three and then four channels of television or various newspapers, in this case the Daily Mirror, my Dad’s choice of daily. For years we had only 3 channels and Channel 4, to watch “The Incredible Hulk”, “Wood & Walters”, “Not The Nine O’ Clock News” and “The Young Ones”, or go and see “Life of Brian” and “Airplane” in the cinemas. We could watch and listen to Top of the Pops, The Tube and The Old Grey Whistle and underground sounds such as punk and “alternative music” spawned fanzines – cheap anarchic magazines full of anti-political, energetic and downright rude cartoons and articles, following the literary tradition of lampooning society the more sophisticated it tries to get. The first few characters in my plays represented home and family life – or opinions heard – and the substance of their clichés steered them through scenes. But then I put rounded characters under pressure in enclosed spaces and wrote whatever happened. My first poems were wishy-washy rubbish, but got better and got published in obscure reviews but I never studied poetry, writing, acting, directing, never wanted to, still don’t. Nonetheless, I fought against Thatcher in my own little way and I knew she'd throw in the towel eventually, once she buckled under the power of my words...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Maggie Thatcher (My Part in Her Downfall). To get started finding Maggie Thatcher (My Part in Her Downfall), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 158

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1501004964

Description: These are notes from my diaries from 1982 to 1984, so I don’t presume they’ll interest anyone but me (and maybe a few others) who lived around Darlington, Co. Durham, England, between 1982 and 1984. Unless, that is, you're mildly curious about what it was like to be young and live under the Conservative government of the late Margaret Thatcher who'd been Prime Minister since 1979.In 1982 came the Falklands War with Argentina, American Cruise Missiles, Greenham Common, the Cold War (nuclear war seemed always imminent back then thanks to President Reagan and his sabre-rattling) and in '83 and '84 the Miner’s Strike, Scargill, the Brighton Bomb, the IRA's armed campaign, famine in Ethiopia and the first surreptitious carving up of the Welfare State by the selling off council houses. On a local level it shows Darlington Arts Centre and Drama Centre in the days when culture wasn't measured against demand and supply but was a harvest-gift for all. And, on an individual level, you can have a good laugh at me: naïve, dumb and clumsy, living at home at 19 and thinking the world owed him a living. True, he’d lost his virginity but knew nothing about women and though he started with long hair and denim, finished as an anarchist with a blonde Mohican. Popular music - Culture Club, FGTH, The Cure to name but a few - was considered “low” culture, but in fact for millions of working and middle classes it gave us slogans to live by and “tribes” to associate with. In my environment almost all information came through three and then four channels of television or various newspapers, in this case the Daily Mirror, my Dad’s choice of daily. For years we had only 3 channels and Channel 4, to watch “The Incredible Hulk”, “Wood & Walters”, “Not The Nine O’ Clock News” and “The Young Ones”, or go and see “Life of Brian” and “Airplane” in the cinemas. We could watch and listen to Top of the Pops, The Tube and The Old Grey Whistle and underground sounds such as punk and “alternative music” spawned fanzines – cheap anarchic magazines full of anti-political, energetic and downright rude cartoons and articles, following the literary tradition of lampooning society the more sophisticated it tries to get. The first few characters in my plays represented home and family life – or opinions heard – and the substance of their clichés steered them through scenes. But then I put rounded characters under pressure in enclosed spaces and wrote whatever happened. My first poems were wishy-washy rubbish, but got better and got published in obscure reviews but I never studied poetry, writing, acting, directing, never wanted to, still don’t. Nonetheless, I fought against Thatcher in my own little way and I knew she'd throw in the towel eventually, once she buckled under the power of my words...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Maggie Thatcher (My Part in Her Downfall). To get started finding Maggie Thatcher (My Part in Her Downfall), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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