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Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Neil Kinnock -- Introduction -- Prologue: A New Look at an 'Old Labour' Government -- 1: The Toads -- 2: Dire Straits in 1978 -- 3: The Winter of Our Discontent -- 4: Loyalist Group Formed -- 5: The Sad Farewell to Old Labour -- 6: Leave Thatcher, We'll Get Callaghan First -- 7: The Darkest Hour -- 8: Blunders, Bloomers and the Leadership -- 9: A Second Own Goal at Wembley -- 10: Shirley Throws in the Towel -- 11: The Moderates Fight Back -- 12: Toad Fights Badger -- 13: Hope and Despair -- 14: Foot Won't Help -- 15: The Wild Wood -- 16: The Goodies Gang Up - Benn Cast Away -- 17: A Phoney Peace and a Real War in the Falklands -- 18: Taking Control -- 19: Under New Management -- 20: By-elections at Bermondsey and Darlington -- 21: The Longest Suicide Note -- 22: The 1983 General Election - Foot's Last Stand -- 23: The Leadership Battle - Kinnock's Victory -- 24: The Fall of Militant -- 25: The Fall of Benn -- Epilogue: Blackpool, Conference Week 1998 -- Postscript: Westminster, December 2015 The Left Ascendant in a New Winter of Discontent -- Select Bibliography -- Appendix: The Guardian Obituary of John Golding -- Index -- A, B, C -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X -- Y, Z -- Copyright

Objective Two studies were conducted to develop and validate a questionnaire to estimate individual susceptibility to visually induced motion sickness (VIMS). Background VIMS is a common side-effect when watching dynamic visual content from various sources, such as virtual reality, movie theaters, or smartphones. A reliable questionnaire predicting individual susceptibility to VIMS is currently missing. The aim was to fill this gap by introducing the Visually Induced Motion Sickness Susceptibility Questionnaire (VIMSSQ). Methods A survey and an experimental study were conducted. Survey: The VIMSSQ investigated the frequency of nausea, headache, dizziness, fatigue, and eyestrain when using different visual devices. Data were collected from a survey of 322 participants for the VIMSSQ and other related phenomena such as migraine. Experimental study: 23 participants were exposed to a VIMS-inducing visual stimulus. Participants filled out the VIMSSQ together with other questionnaires and rated their level of VIMS using the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ). Results Survey: The most prominent symptom when using visual devices was eyestrain, and females reported more VIMS than males. A one-factor solution with good scale reliability was found for the VIMSSQ. Experimental study: Regression analyses suggested that the VIMSSQ can be useful in predicting VIMS ( R2 = .34) as measured by the SSQ, particularly when combined with questions pertaining to the tendency to avoid visual displays and experience syncope ( R2 = .59). Conclusion We generated normative data for the VIMSSQ and demonstrated its validity. Application The VIMSSQ can become a valuable tool to estimate one's susceptibility to VIMS based on self-reports.

Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) refers to the finding that the retrieval of an item from memory impairs the retrieval of related items. The extent to which this impairment is found in laboratory tests varies between individuals, and recent studies have reported an association between individual differences in the strength of the RIF effect and other cognitive and clinical factors. The present study investigated the reliability of these individual differences in the RIF effect. A RIF task was administered to the same individuals on two occasions (sessions T1 and T2), one week apart. For Experiments 1 and 2 the final retrieval test at each session made use of a category-cue procedure, whereas Experiment 3 employed category-plus-letter cues, and Experiment 4 used a recognition test. In Experiment 2 the same test items that were studied, practiced, and tested at T1 were also studied, practiced, and tested at T2, but for the remaining three experiments two different item sets were used at T1 and T2. A significant RIF effect was found in all four experiments. A significant correlation was found between RIF scores at T1 and T2 in Experiment 2, but for the other three experiments the correlations between RIF scores at T1 and T2 failed to reach significance. This study therefore failed to find clear evidence for reliable individual differences in RIF performance, except where the same test materials were used for both test sessions. These findings have important implications for studies involving individual differences in RIF performance.