Thatcher's Secret War: Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 - Softcover

Bloom, Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750997885 ISBN 13: 9780750997881

Publisher: The History Press, 2021

Synopsis

Margaret Thatcher remains one of the UK’s most polarising prime ministers. In this new and revised edition, Thatcher's Secret War sheds new light on the secret, internal ‘cold war’ that the Iron Lady and her government waged against ‘the enemy within’: anti-nuclear, new age and ecology campaigners; poll tax protesters; trade unionists at GCHQ and striking miners; feminists and homosexuals; Scottish nationalists; protesters and rioters in Brixton, Toxteth and Broadwater Farm; the far right; the EU; and the IRA – among others. It was a campaign fuelled by paranoia on both the left and right of the political spectrum and fought with corruption, black propaganda, dirty tricks and even murder. Clive Bloom surmises that the UK is rapidly changing and that although Thatcher’s ideals seem to have vanished, one remains: the power and importance of the extra-parliamentary state and its surveillance methods and hidden powers in a new age of terrorism.

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About the Author

CLIVE BLOOM is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University. He was the historical consultant to the BBC and a number of national and international newspapers on the G20 and the summer riots in Britain. He is an occasional feature writer for the Financial Times, The Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, regularly appearing on television and radio.

Edition details

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750997885
• ISBN 13: 9780750997881
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320