Which artist will dare break this deathly cultural silence? | John Harris

In the 80s, even Wham! supported the miners. But tomorrow's strike has yet to find any expression in the wider cultureThursday's strikes loom, and underneath the inevitable theatrics from both sides, there's a sense of an achingly familiar problem: trade unions stoked up and ready for action, leaders talking in terms of a long march through the autumn and beyond, but no real sense that their case has even begun to cut through to the public. But nobody should be under any illusions about how cruc...

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