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Week 67: 5th – 11th September, 1985 (opens the original)
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Liverpool council – “a Labour council, a Labour council” – is broke, and Derek Hatton is already booking the taxis to ferry staff around to hand out 90-day redundancy notices to other staff in a desperate attempt to get the law off his back. It’s been a busy summer for Degsy, whose escapades will of course inspire Alan Bleasdale to write GBH. Hatton’s precise activities during the last weekend of July are a mystery, though the Brighton Metropole was hosting a Doctor Who convention then... Meanwh
Week 66: 1st – 7th August, 1981 (opens the original)
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“You’ll never look at music the same way again!” MTV launches with The Buggles, Pat Benatar and lots of men with bubble perms and open-necked shirts stood in front of exposed brickwork. (In America, that is. UK viewers will have to wait another six years before it turns up on the cable services of futuristic cities like Swindon and Milton Keynes.) Inevitably, its commercial veneer leads to a popular backlash, immortalised in the Dead Kennedys’ song MTV Get Off the Air. (“Fun, fun, fun in the flu
Week 65: 18th – 24th July, 1979 (opens the original)
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Sandinista! Daniel Ortega’s socialist junta wrestles control of Nicaragua from the Somoza dynasty. They’ll remain in charge for the coming decade, despite the best efforts of Reagan and Oliver North, along the way inspiring the Clash to release a truly exhausting triple LP, featuring guest appearances from Mikey Dread, Den Hegarty and Topper Headon’s dog. The EETPU cause ITV to shut down for a full twenty-four hours, but talks afterwards are positive, so the chance of anything like that happenin
Week 64: 4th – 10th July, 1983 (opens the original)
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The Labour party desperately needs a new leader, and there’s only one serious candidate. Neil Kinnock’s supporters announce he’s secured 90% of MPs’ votes for the coming October electoral college, meaning he’ll roundly thrash the likes of Hattersley, Heffer and the left’s foremost John Wells lookalike Peter Shore. Kinnock’s opinions on New Order are sadly lost to history. Meanwhile Nigel Lawson slashes government spending by half a billion quid just after Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine has
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