David Blackburn

From the archives – striking matters

This week, there have been calls for certain public sector strikes to be made unlawful, Tube strikes and, today, the firemen have called off their strike having ‘listened to the concerns of the public’. It is all so 2002.

Go To Blazes, The Spectator, 26 October 2002

Any public sector union contemplating a strike is best advised to start by targeting children’s bookshops.

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