DAN ATKINSON revisits a compendium of people who really mattered in 1980s Britain. Continue reading
Author Archives: Dan Atkinson
A lost decade
What’s been the big economic picture over the last ten years? It isn’t good, says DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Ghosts of Budgets Past
DAN ATKINSON on the very few Budgets that have actually mattered. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Bloody Margaret
DAN ATKINSON revisits some Thatcherite fantasies by Mark Lawson. Continue reading
Polls apart
How seriously should we take opinion polls, wonders DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Train, Train
DAN ATKINSON on a novel from ‘the Other 1980s’. Continue reading
Jelly, ice-cream and tins of Harp
DAN ATKINSON remembers the Silver Jubilee of 1977. Continue reading
Rear-view review: London Dossier
DAN ATKINSON on a book of snapshots of Swinging London, from Guards bands to porn shops. Continue reading
Those were the days, comrades
DAN ATKINSON remembers a golden age of political conferences, from stout to New Zealand pinot noir. Continue reading
Austin Mitchell: The MP for Lost Causes
DAN ATKINSON celebrates a Labour MP who repeatedly backed against the favourite and often won. Continue reading
Rear-view review: The Tumbled House
DAN ATKINSON finds sex, plagiarism and libel in a 1959 novel by Winston Graham. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Charlie
Nigel Williams’s 1984 thriller involving trade unions, nationalised car manufacturers, far left politics – it’s a classic of its era, concludes DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
