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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Once upon a time the peasants were revolting. These days it's the middle classes. Not all of them, mind you. Only those who work in the public sector, or have private wealth.
In his latest return to the picketing front-line, the 84-year-old pensioner this time stood with museum staff in Wakefield locked in a bitter pay dispute with the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: When I saw Arthur Scargill, 84, still wearing his signature Battle of Orgreave baseball cap, my previous life as a young industrial correspondent flashed before me.
Former NUM president and ardent communist Arthur Scargill has joined Mick Lynch's mass rail strikes today in solidarity with the 'greedy' union barons who have paralysed Britain.