Sherford Life

It seems that there is already a clear frontrunner in the race to be 2023’s ‘word of the year’: strike. As I write on a frosty Monday morning in February, the news channels tell me that today will be the biggest walkout in NHS history, as both nurses and ambulance staff take to the picket lines.

It’s nothing new: we’ve had almost daily strike action since late November, with teachers, train drivers, civil servants and postal workers all taking action. Just last week I had my daughter home from school and for one day I became Mr. Brassil, Supply Teacher extraordinaire (much to the chagrin of her two older brothers whose teachers were not on strike!)