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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Peter Williams: Why the Big Strike is a bad idea


Where will public sympathy fall?

When doctors, teachers and nurses walk off the job together it can make international headlines — but that doesn’t mean it’s wise, principled or remotely strategic.

Thursday’s public service strike may thrill some union executives and excite X’s permanent catastrophists, but in cold political reality it is self-defeating, reckless and potentially damaging to the very causes these professions claim to represent.