JAN MOIR: It's ordinary people who suffer most in strike-hit, me-first Britain trends now
More Heathrow strikes are on the horizon, carefully planned to cause maximum destruction to summer holiday plans.
More Stop Oil protests will be creating havoc in Central London and elsewhere over the coming weeks. More TikTokers are out on the streets, using cruelty and chaos in pranks that cause humiliation and fear.
More rail strikes and more NHS strikes are on the menu as junior doctors and nurses call for better pay. More DVLA strikes? Possibly. More from civil servants? You bet.
More strikes from border security staff, bus drivers, teachers and have I missed anyone out?
As more and more unions plan or have planned strike action over the coming months, what a juncture we have reached.
JAN MOIR: It's ordinary people who will suffer the most from the strikes (Pictured: members of the PCS on the picket line in May)
More Heathrow strikes are on the horizon, carefully planned to cause maximum destruction to summer holiday plans. Heathrow Airport is pictured in 2019 during a pilots' strike
Last year the UK recorded the highest number of working days lost to labour disputes for more than 30 years, with nearly 2.5 million days lost to industrial action.
It is not even July yet, but already a long, hot summer of discontent stretches before us, a ribbon of unrest fluttering into the future.
How did we get here? The pandemic, inflation and a cost of living crisis have all helped to put the country in a tight spot. House prices have fallen for the first time in more than a decade while energy prices and poverty levels have gone up, up, up.
Commerce, retail, independents, catering, the public sector; everyone is suffering. Even Party Pieces has gone bust, owing millions in debt; few businesses have escaped unscathed not even the Middletons. But outside factors and universal context matter little to strikers and protesters, to malcontents and mischief makers.
These are tough times for serious people, this is a moment in history when we should be pulling together, putting a united shoulder to the wheel to try to get this country back on its feet again.
Yet look around and all you can see is a plague of short-termism and me-first-ism. My issue over your comfort, my comfort over your wrecked plans, my wish for a nicer lifestyle and cleaner air over your wish to get your child to school or mother to hospital.
As yet another strike grinds onwards or Just Stop Oil bring London to a standstill while TikTokers ransack the Primark store in Oxford Street just for a laugh,
