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I agree with you. I suppose the reality of those miners who did suffer is a lot less immediate to us in the South as we weren't really impacted either by the polar extremes or what lay between.

That puts me in mind of when I was young and used to argue with my Mum & Dad about the iniquity Thatcher visited on the mining villages. My Dad always retorted that an ex-miner who drank in his pub reckoned that the miners were overpaid, as though the opinion of one who got out before the...