Remember the Miner’s strike? I guess many don’t, it was a defining moment in British Politics, when Thatcher defeated the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Norman Strike spent a year as a picket and to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the strike he’s publishing his diary he kept during that time as a blog – day by day – a fascinating document from a perspective of a striking miner – which wasn’t heard from much at the time nor since.