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“When the lights went out” by Andy Beckett is an absolute must-read if you're interested in British politics in the 1970s, and let's be honest, the 1970s is where so many of the political movements that affect us even now were born. ... including the proposed site of the airport in the North Sea that Ted Heath wanted to build, or the TUC “Worker's Hotel” in Bournemouth, or the fact that one of the famous IMF meetings bizarrely took place in the back of a tailor's shop. ...