Russell Jones's Week Moment: Contaminated Labour

Russell Jones's Week Moment: Contaminated Labour

Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Photo: Associated Press / AlamyIn one of many unforgettable scenes in the extraordinary and harrowing TV drama Chernobyl, a group of scientists and officials gather to ask for volunteers from the plant’s engineering team. The task is unthinkable: to wade through radioactive floodwaters beneath the ruined reactor and drain the tanks before the molten core melts through and triggers a thermal explosion— an eruption tha…