Happy May Day.
In the early 80s, politics got into a lot of my articles. There was no escaping it. In fact, there’s a line in my memoir that goes:
“How to be political: Be alive in Britain in the 1980s. Live in the north. That’s it.”
The 1980s was an era of taking sides. You could listen to people who fretted about unemployment and wanted to free Nelson M…