CUTTING YOUR CLOTH: During the long years of Thatcher-created unemployment, the press were always quick to condemn strikers - "if they don't
want their jobs" they'd write, "there are plenty who do."
Now, of course, unemployment is much lower. So how does the Daily Telegraph respond to the threat of strike action by BA baggage handlers? "In an era of full employment, if they're unhappy with their jobs, why don't they go and work elsewhere?" Absolutely perfect.