Getting a mortgage up until and including the 70’s was incredibly difficult, due to credit controls. My Dad was in a good financial position, but even he faced a very long grilling at the Alliance & Leicester BS in Duke Street, Brighton when applying for a remortgage …. it took an entire...
There really never was a pre 2010 or pre 1979 utopia. Gay bashing (nothing funny about it), giving down and outs a bloody kicking, beating up Indian or Chinese looking folk, laughing at the disabled, the murder of little Keith Lyon, Stephen Lawrence … it’s always been around.
A relatively...