MICHAEL KERSTGENS: The Enemy WithinOn March 6th 1984 miners at Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire went on strike. Six days later, on March 12th, NUM President, Arthur Scargill, made the strike official across Britain. And so began the UKs biggest strike since the General Strike of 1926. It ran for almost a year until March 1985 a year of bitter conflict between the miners and Margaret Thatcher and her government and marked the end of the mining era in Britain. 24 year old Michael

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with limited means

His father had also spent twelve years working in South Wales for an engineering company involved with the mining industry

the Humber Police Patrol Car containing uniformed driver and patrolman

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Born in India

become exaggerated

the Las Vegas millionaires who fashioned their own messiah in a bid to carve out their own libertarian paradise in the South Seas

Set in rural Ireland

Italian parents would routinely admonish recalcitrant children with the threat ‘ti mando in colonia

– Neil King