The following spring the National Union of Mineworkers called a nationwide strike, despite the failure of their firebrand president, Arthur Scargill, to ballot his members.

BBC: Obituary: Margaret Thatcher

Not least, the miners union, under the Stalinist Arthur Scargill, had invented new picketing strategies that enabled them to paralyze the country wherever they chose.

WSJ: Paul Johnson: The World-Changing Margaret Thatcher

Ken Capstick, the man who exchanged those short text messages with Arthur Scargill, has a simple view on why even the death of Baroness Thatcher, so many years after she left office, will never soften her image in Yorkshire pit villages.

BBC: Baroness Thatcher's death reopens wounds in Yorkshire