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  Barry, nobody really knows exactly what went on, certainly nobody who was not physically present on the ground. Getting a view from the media is dangerous and unreliable; we know from personal accounts that the police closely controlled the movements of the strikers so we can reliably assume thay also controlled access by journalists and cameras equally closely, making sure they only reported and filmed what they were supposed to. Anecdotes about the police taunting strikers and their families by waving their overtime pay packets at them are so rife that they can't be ignored, yet I have never seen that on film. We have Gary's eye-witness reports of strikers being illegally 'kettled' yet this is something the media were not allowed to see.
  
  There is more to this than meets the eye and it has long been obvious to me that highly illegal practices were routine on both sides. Furthermore, when the police have been exposed for falsifying evidence I struggle to take at face value anything they say on the subject.

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