It's quite odd. The people who are running this country are brought up on a diet of Latin and Greek and our members are brought up on a diet of getting up at ungodly times to run the transport system. I think there's a bit of disconnect there. If we had people who were used to doing work we might get a better deal out of them.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
A Bit of Disconnect
Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, quoted in Sarah Collier,
"Further strike action possible as latest walkout cripples rail services again," Evening Standard (June 25, 2022):