The same fallacy that fuels nostalgia for coal miners is determined to keep us poor today

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.

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