Britain is not lacking in trade unions – if anything, they have become one of the country’s few reliable constants. The latest example: the London underground workers who are set to go on strike for seven days in September.

In theory, trade unions exist to protect workers from the overreach of power – and in some areas, particularly pay disputes, they still serve that purpose. Yet in other, more insidious ways, many unions have become instruments of power themselves, enforcing ideological conformity rather than defending workers’ rights.

A culturally conservative trade union would have a simple purpose: to defend the British worker from ideological coercion and economic dispossession.

Take the 2024 case of five NHS nurses in Darlington, who raised concerns about a male colleague prese

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