Nick Hayes is an intern in our London bureau. He normally arrives to work on time, but not today. Here he tells us why: 

I just got a taste what life must have been like in Britain in the 70s -- when strikes erupted on a regular basis and angry workers engaged in running battles with the government of the day. Transport for London, the company that runs London's famous underground system, failed to come to terms with the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers. The result has been chaos on the subway since Monday afternoon -- and this could stretch to the end of the week.