1. Margaret Thatcher

  2. Labour couldn’t win an election

  3. Putting the Unions back in their box

  4. Enabling millions of people to buy shares for the first time

  5. A-ha & Alphaville

  6. Audi Quattros

  7. Ejecting the Argentinians from the Falklands

  8. Enabling hundreds of thousands of people to buy their own homes

  9. Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev

  10. The Mullett

  11. Ian Botham

  12. Airplane

  13. Trevor Brooking & Alan Devonshire, Tony Cottee & Frank McAvennie.

  14. Winning the Cold War

  15. Trivial Pursuit

  16. Tina Turner

  17. J R Ewing

  18. Nena’s 99 Luftballons and her hairy armpits

  19. The Conservatives winning three elections in a row

  20. The advent of Sky TV.

  21. The ZX Spectrum

  22. Apricot computers

  23. Shoulder Pads

  24. The Pet Shop Boys

  25. Mrs Mangel

  26. Sue Ellen’s quivering lip

  27. Anne & Nick

  28. Frank Bough’s jumpers

  29. Gyles Brandreth’s jumpers

  30. The vanquishing of Arthur Scargill

  31. Big in Japan

  32. The smell of the Sunday Times magazine

  33. The VW Scirocco

  34. Wired for Sound

  35. Vincent Hanna

  36. Wogan

  37. Gregory’s Girl

  38. Squarials

  39. Krystal Carrington

  40. Limahl