Quotes from Dominic Sandbrook

Such was the impact of the new medium that by 1967 nine in ten households had a television set. The only homes without one were those suffering from either 'extreme deprivation or self-conscious intellectualism'.16 In

As for the future, the Mirror was not optimistic. 'If the 1980s are as awful as they predict,' it thought, 'the only people working at the end of them will be the experts forecasting unemployment for everyone else.

number later put it, 'quids in'. 'I was getting taxis about,' he recalled. 'I mean, a pound would buy you a bloody good night out. You could probably have eight or nine pints of beer and twenty fags and a couple of tanners for the juke box.

Afterwards, when they went around the table discussing the government's 'achievements', Clark's answer was 'that we have really succeeded in putting a lot of people out of work'. There was grim laughter at that, but he was absolutely serious. The unions, he thought, had been 'disciplined by the fear of being put on the dole and this is a considerable, though brutal, achievement'. But apart from that, he could think of nothing else.

the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours'.7