There She Goes: Liverpool, A City on Its Own. The Long Decade: 1979-1993 Kindle Edition

I came to Liverpool in 1989- just after Hillsborough and before the terrible Jamie Bulger murder (the final two chapters here). The city was barely recovering from the unemployment and the ravages of the worst of Thatcherism yet I’m here over 20 years later in a modern World city, a thriving tourist destination.This book puts you there in that long lost decade, you can taste the hopelessness, the fear and the anger, the sense of injustice from Hillsborough and the shock and shame of that brutal killing of a two year old boy.Essential reading. Bravo Simon Hughes!

Liverpool, Hull, a few others, northern cities and towns not lost to the Tories in December 2019, after a landslide election victory makes 'There She Goes: Liverpool, A City on its Own: The Long Decade: 1979-1993' as relevant as ever. Full credit to author Simon Hughes for pulling a lot of different threads together to make sense of what was a very turbulent time, a challenging time of change yet defiance. For a few years during the period covered by Simon Hughes I lived there, saw the impact of neglect first hand. A must read.

I enjoyed the book lots of memories

Fascinating and infuriating in parts

What a book, what a story, what a disgrace of a government.