Oxbridge hedonists and jobless rioters " sound familiar?
I wrote the play Hard Feelings " which will be revived tonight by Defibrillator Theatre at the Finborough " in early 1982, in the aftermath of the previous year's riots which had torn a great hole in the national fabric and shaken the government to act. The Scarman Report was commissioned, Sus laws were repealed, PACE was introduced and the impact of mass unemployment was assessed.