However, one could never doubt the miners’ resilience or the talents that drove so many of them to the very top. I am proud that my fellow Fifer Jennie Lee, Nye Bevan’s wife, came from a mining background in Lochgelly; that the formidable general secretary of the NUM in my young days, Lawrence Daly, originated in Kelty—not Glencraig, I think; and that great...