I’ll say this for the RMT: they are, at least, a trade union that has long since given up the pretense of caring about the wider public good. While the insufferable junior doctors pretend their money-grabbing militancy is somehow an act of great benevolence towards patients, the rail workers’ union is so transparently a glorified protection racket that it’s almost refreshing. Hence the absurdity of a London tube driver set to earn £80,000 for a role that should have been automated years ago.

If there is one silver lining to this lunacy it is that, in the long-term, the RMT is signing its own death warrant

If there is one silver lining to this lunacy it is that, in the long-term, the RMT is signing its own death warrant

The RMT has always been this way. From Bob Crow to Mick Lynch, the central qualification for serving as general secretary in recent decades seems to have been being a bald, bolshy Bolshevik. Their leaders have long realised that, given London’s reliance on its underground network, the union can effectively grind the........

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