I normally cannot tolerate the rubbish that John Pilger is capable of dishing up to us. However , on this occasion , he is spot on with his views .

It eventually had to happen.. I had better mark the date.

What a pile of dung.

Having watched an business commentry on the Royal mail on the BBC, it is clear that all is not well financially for this institution as technology and competitors strip it of revenue.

The article is probably cut and pasted from the union mouthpiece and is far from unbaised commentry.

Aspley, I'm afraid your wait continues.

If Scargill was fighting to save an industry, in the UK, The Germans & Japs, in WW11, were fighting for freedom, & democracy for all.

What utter BS.

I'm afraid that whatever truth there might have been in this commentary on the loss of a venerable British institution is entirely lost beneath a steaming pile of overblown, emotive rhetoric.

Reality and Pilger seem to have parted company. And I say that with sadness, as someone who has purchased and read several of his books.

I'm with Pericles on this one.
Mr Pilger may well have some valid points, indeed he may even be entirely correct, but the overblown verbiage of his polemic left me cold.
Maybe next time more with the facts, less with the hyperbole.

Pilger is defending the indefensible… the rights of minorities with a vested interest sanctioned by a government monopoly exercising dictatorial strike power over the general population.

Any government which follows the wisdom of the Thatcher government, in removing the sucking parasites from the teat of public revenues and subsidies, is doing the right thing.

The likes of Scargill (I remember having to study by kerosene lamp thanks to the rolling blackouts the actions of his swill caused) was despotic.. .an attempt to maintain the preferential employment rights of miners at the expense of everyone else.

The sooner governments everywhere realize that they will always be faced with a conflict of interests, when the operators / owners are also the regulators, the sooner we will see the complete withdraw of government from commerce and an end to these clusters of despotic strike power.

It pleases me to see so many post criticizing the view of the Pilgers of the worl