2012-11-27
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photo 03:12:41
c86:
I’ve been a member of The LEGO Club since the early 1980s
You can download old issues of Bricks ‘n Pieces, the UK Lego Club magazine, from Brickset. The one pictured here is the Spring 1983 issue (PDF).
(I have a feeling I still have the patch and the badge somewhere at my parents, but I’m not sure about the magazines.)
2012-05-03
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photo 21:27:01
Piggyback Space Shuttle Enterprise over NYC.
In 1983.
That’s probably the year the shuttle prototype came to Stansted. I remember it happening, and regret that, for some reason, when my dad got out of the car to take a photograph of it, I didn’t go with him.
Still, I expect I’ll finally get to see it Enterprise at USS Intrepid some time later this year.
(Photograph: Richard Drew / AP)
2010-03-05
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quote 11:58:46
“ Tories might reread Labour’s 1983 manifesto and accept that although the big economic argument of that year (private ownership or public ownership?) has been won, the big sociocultural argument (Christian traditionalism or secular pluralism?) has been lost. Given its stress on economic planning, Labour’s 1983 manifesto does look archaic. But so does the 1983 Tory manifesto, given its stress on marriage-based households and its reluctance to admit alternative family structures. ”
Richard Kelly, writing in New Statesman in 2003: Not as daft as you thought, on the only Labour general election manifesto while Michael Foot was leader.
