Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands war being on the telly.

I grew up in former Yugoslavia. Tito, the socialist leader of the post WWII Yugoslavia, died on the 4th of May 1980. I was 7 years old at the time. […]

My mother telling me “that man is ruining the country” as President Ronald Reagan spoke on television.

Children at school chanting ‘Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher’.

I remember accompanying my Mum into a voting booth, I think it was for the 1987 general election but it may have been a local election a year or two […]

I was born in 1967 and as a small child I was on my father’s shoulders in anti-Vietnam War rallies in which the (U.S.) National Guard was brought out. I […]

My mum and dad had a set of badges that I used to like playing with. My favourites were the CND ones but there were also “Save Greater London Council” […]

My earliest political memory is 9/11 happening.

My earliest conscious political memory was the Greek election of October 1993, when I was 10. I have recollections of politics before then in the news and the newspapers (Gorbachev, […]

The announcement of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was probably my first political memory. I was 6 at the time and I remember that I was at my aunt’s […]