Liverpool had seen massive riots in 1981 and now Prime Minister Thatcher and the establishment needed to react as Tony McMahon discovers
Liverpool had seen massive riots in 1981 and now Prime Minister Thatcher and the establishment needed to react as Tony McMahon discovers
Short Sharp Shock was a prison regime introduced by the Conservative government in the early 1980s for young people that was brutal and didn’t work
Veteran right-winger Enoch Powell placed the race card cynically after the 1981 riots trying to blame those from the New Commonwealth
Thatcher first year in power