Alwyn Turner > Quotes

“And then things got worse.”
― Alwyn Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

“In this country in fifteen or twenty years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man,’ and he quoted in full a letter that claimed to recount the experience of another constituent of his, an elderly white woman terrorized by her black neighbours: ‘Windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letterbox.”
― Alwyn Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

“The more I hear commercial radio the more repellent I find it,’ shuddered the comedian Kenneth Williams. ‘The din created by the half-baked talking to the half-educated is horrible.”
― Alwyn Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

“If Mrs Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.”
― Alwyn Turner, Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s