It is likely that some patients will be harmed as a result of the coming strike by junior doctors and some may well die – this is several orders of magnitude more significant than not being able to get on a train.
In a departure from his normally upbeat, things-are-getting-better column at the beginning of a new year, Dan Hannan now thinks of himself as a “rational pessimist” and says things will get worse in 2023.
Britain will be hammered by a wave of strikes every day in the run-up to Christmas in a new ‘Winter of Discontent’. Rishi Sunak is in office, but not in charge – and the public’s anger is growing by the day.
Scientists have told the Telegraph that the Delta Plus variant will not lead to a summer of chaos – leave that to the unions.
