NEWSLETTER


DOS & DON'TS

Meanwhile, the direct marketers of the world still look like they made their mom drop them off around the corner. Comments/Enlarge | See all


On the whole, do you think society is becoming more or less sensitive to the profoundly mentally ill now that a lot of their care providers are in the private sector? Comments/Enlarge | See all






RELATED ARTICLES

VICE FASHION - IRAQI MEMORABILIA
Tidbits for the Homesick
A CHAOS MAGICIAN
In the mid-70s two guys named Peter J. Ca...
VICE FASHION - RYAN INC.
Behind the Scenes of the McGinley Machine

DAYS OF THATCHER - PART 2

Photos by John Sturrock



Click on images to enlarge
Margaret Thatcher touring a doll factory in Glasgow during the 1987 election campaign. Thatcher went on to win her third consecutive term in office, cementing her victory over the National Union of Mineworkers two years earlier.


Police watch a building crumble to cinders in Brixton, 1985.

After Brixton police mistakenly shot Cherry Groce, the mother of a man for whom they were searching, a second round of race riots erupted, fueled largely by the continued harassment of blacks and failure of the government to address the social grievances that caused the 1981 riot.


Police horses were used extensively during the miners’ strike to corral and break mass pickets. Scenes like this one in Brodsworth near Doncaster in the fall of 1984 looked more like medieval battles than contemporary political skirmishes.


A young boy playing near the busted-out window of a council estate in Manchester. Over the course of Thatcher’s time in office, the contrast in living conditions between the increasingly wealthy upper and middle classes and the inner-city poor grew starker and starker year by year. (PS: Check out the Burberry.)


DAYS OF THATCHER | 1 | 2 |

See all articles by this contributor

< PREV

Comments


POST A COMMENT [SIGN IN]
Hi, in case you haven't heard, you can now sign up to become a "member" of Viceland.com, which entitles you to all sorts of amazing benefits like pictures and a nickname. Click here to make your own profile. You can still comment if you don't, but you gotta do it all 'nonymously.

Name:
Comment: