City AM opinion piece, on UK Politics, 12 November 2026
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Read the original article on cityam.com (opens in a new tab)James Ford's City AM column argues that the RMT's planned Tube strikes strengthen the case for a fully driverless Underground and that new Budget funding could help pay for it. Its facts about the strike dates match the Evening Standard's list and City AM's own news report of the announcement, and the column opens by telling readers it is one writer's argument. The column does not say the dispute is over TfL's four-day week proposals; on an opinion piece that omission is not counted as a finding.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
“holding no fewer than eight days of strike action between November and February”
The number and spread of strike days match the Evening Standard's list of eight 24-hour strikes from 26 November to 25 February, and City AM's own news report of the announcement.
“Three of those strike days will be in the run-up to Christmas , including the last Saturday before Christmas Day”
This matches the published dates: 26 November, 17 December and Saturday 19 December fall before Christmas, as the Evening Standard reports.
“argues James Ford”
The piece tells readers at the start that it is one writer's argument, so its view on unions and automation is not passed off as news reporting.
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