This is not the Winter of Discontent. Mick Lynch is not Scargill. Sunak is not Thatcher. And Pat Cullen is definitely not Florence Nightingale.

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column 

This is not the Winter of Discontent. Mick Lynch is not Arthur Scargill. Rishi Sunak is not Margaret Thatcher. And, I might add, the nurses��� leader Pat Cullen is definitely not Florence Nightingale.

I can tell you most of this because I spent seven gripping years, from 1977 to 1984, writing about strikes, and unions, and pay deals, often in the middle of the night.

I can say this about Pat Cullen because my beloved aunt Ena, the best human bei...