Thatcherism and the new politics, Andrew Gamble; Britain and the world economy, Peter Taylor; nationalisms in a divided kingdom, James Anderson; the changing electoral geography of Britain, R.J.Johnston and C.J.Pattie; the crisis of local government - uneven development and the Thatcher administrations, Mark Goodwin and Simon Duncan; deindustrialization and state intervention - Keynesianism, Thatcherism and the regions, Ron Martin; rewriting history and reshaping geography - the nationalized industries and the political economy of Thatcherism, Ray Hudson; the changing geography of trades unions, Doreen Massey and Joe Painter; the politics of race and a new segregationism, Susan J.Smith; women in Thatcher's Britain, Linda McDowell; transport policy - off the rails?, John Whitelegg; the political geography of housing in contemporary Britain, Chris Hamnett; commercialization and centralization - towards a new geography of health care, John Mohan; policing the recession, Nicholas R.Fyfe; environmental politics and policy in the 1980s, Philip Lowe and Andrew Flynn.