● STRIKES ARE BACK, and with them, memories of the mid-1980s and the miners’ stoppage. Today it’s the transport workers bringing the country to a halt. Mick Lynch, boss of the RMT union, is having a good class war, jousting effectively with his journalistic interrogators. Yet, the ghosts of another era still hover. Who remembers SOGAT, the now-vanished print workers’ union, once 200,000-strong, that for years effectively ruled Fleet Street and the newspaper business? Or, for that matter, the National Union of Mineworkers?
The left and much of the, the fine BBC six-part drama that loops back and forth between the miners’ strike and the present-day.
