It was nice to see that she is now out of hospital, at home, dunking digestives in her tea. She was visited by daughter Carole, she will probably have a relapse now. What happened to Arthur Scargill? Shouldnt he be dead by now? Much like the 20-years-out-of-date-psuedo-left-wing-middle-class-angst-ridden-pointless-class-war-based-load-of-old-wank-above. I lived in the middle of the Miners strike, my family and those of friends were damaged by it. There was right and wrong on both sides. The experience has made me deeply cynical about politics left and right and thus deeply flippant, BUT relatively few people who spout about it were actually there; with good Policemen being forced to turn against their communities by the far-right wing government of the day who wanted to destroy Trades Unionism and sound mining communities being torn apart and manipulated by cynical far left elements who wanted to fight their class war on the streets of my home town. There are STILL families that are shunned by their communites as a result of that experience. The tanks are rusting on the lawn, the old guard of both sides are fading away. That is as it should be.