They say history is written by the winners. Well, not in the case of the miners’ strike, which marks its fortieth anniversary next month. With each passing year since Arthur Scargill’s futile revolt, the National Union of Mineworkers has been further romanticised.
Spain's socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for the prosperity of the middle and working classes to be secured at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The rise of far-right forces is just a symptom of deeper problems, he said. One of which "is the erosion of the middle and working classes, the same middle and working classes that have not always benefited from the economic transformations of the last few decades, that suffered during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2012, and that no
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