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“The biggest rail strike since 1989” has also spread internationally: it’s the Reuters headline and is being used for top US, Indian, French and other newspapers reporting on Britain.
But not one of these media outlets seem to have said what happened in 1989, in the rail strike they keep highlighting.
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