And now that the free-market fundamentalism unleashed by Margaret Thatcher in the strike's aftermath is being so comprehensively discredited by the crisis of deregulated capitalism she championed, it should be a good time to reassess the most determined bid to resist it in the first place.
But Italy's professional politicians have been comprehensively discredited and embarrassed since Mr Monti came to power last November.
Last week in the New York Times, the anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott repeated a claim which already has been comprehensively discredited: that "close to 1 million people have died of causes linked to the Chernobyl disaster".
They could claim that the widespread predictions of not just a 5-0 sweep in England but a 10-0 annihilatioverver both series could not have been more comprehensively discredited.
Even McCain, who supports the President's new plan, is openly frustrated with the Administration's prosecution of the war, and has been especially critical of Vice-President Dick Cheney Liebermann won't criticize anyone involved but the comprehensively discredited former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Probably pound for pound, he's the most comprehensively talented film-maker I've worked with.
It is the most comprehensively planned new town since Columbia, Maryland, and Reston, Virginia, were built, in the mid-'60s.
There is nothing more boring than referee-bashing, as has been most comprehensively proved in football this weekend.
She concludes by describing how philosophy most comprehensively embodies the secular craving for knowledge of the real.
What evades it most comprehensively, however, is the almost oriental commitment to an aesthetic of glances and hints, of small gestures and repressed feeling.
