When the Iron Lady Ruled Britain by Robert Chesshyre

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When the Iron Lady Ruled Britain by Robert Chesshyre

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Originally published as The Return of a Native Reporter to widespread critical acclaim in 1987, this new edition includes a piece describing a revisit to the former Easington Colliery in 2010 and an extensive new foreword by the author.

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When the Iron Lady Ruled Britain by Robert Chesshyre

Returning to Britain in the mid-1980s after spending several years in the US as the Observer's Washington correspondent, Robert Chesshyre found a country shockingly altered by the rule of 'The Iron Lady', then at the height of her popularity. Disturbed by the Britain he now found himself in, he began to travel the length and breadth of the UK to report on the state of the nation and the lives of ordinary people. The parallels between Britain's predicament in the 1980s and in 2012 have never been so stark, and Chesshyre's book casts a critical eye on the developments of the 1980s that were to shape 'Broken Britain' twenty-five years later: the ever-expanding gap between rich and poor, boom and deregulation of the markets, the explosion of inner-city crime, and the gulf between north and south.
A sobering front-line dispatch from those parts of the country damaged in the course of pursuing a prosperity that looks increasingly will-o'-the-wisp-like* The Telegraph *
Brilliant, bleak. -- Andrew Marr
The effect... is deeply shocking... every Cabinet Minister should be forced to read this book. Superb. -- Hanif Kureishi * TLS *
In this meticulously researched book Chesshyre covers all the relevant issues... life in the US has sharpened his pen and he doesn't waste time pretending that beneath the squalor and inefficiency things here are really hunky-dory... I urge you to read this book. -- Beryl Bainbridge * The Observer *
Robert Chesshyre is a freelance writer and journalist who lives in south-west London. He worked for The Observer for twenty years, wrote full time for the Telegraph Magazine, and more recently has contributed to the Sunday Times Magazine, the Independent, the Times, the Guardian and the Literary Review.
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ISBN 13 9781846882289
ISBN 10 1846882281
Title When the Iron Lady Ruled Britain
Author Robert Chesshyre
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Year published 2012-05-04
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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