The BBC has produced a interactive game with Margaret Thatcher’s reign’s economic stats including a chart with champagne imports 1979 to 1990. Smoking down. Foreign holidays up.
Remember 25% inflation? Hokey-kabokie! The only upside for me in that was it was undergrad and at the beginning of the term when there was lots of grant money in the bank the monthly interest paid for certain optional necessities which came in brown bottles.