Before services were centralised to London, many regions looked after their own affairs – and thrived.
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In Byatt’s fiction, northern locations become emblems of the climate crisis and of how human actions have detrimental effects on the whole planet.
With all delays on this train line over the last decade, it may have been a costly distraction from other projects that could have contributed to levelling up in the meantime.
Labour strategists seem determined to cast Starmer as the sensible ‘adult in the room’, but in order to win lost areas he needs to be much more radical than that.
Local people describe a purposeful past in this former mining community – and a bleak future.
Another red wall seat falls to the party of government, leaving Labour out in the cold once more.
Stereotyping people based on their accents is still a big problem at universities in England.
Even Conservative backbenchers are forming alliances to push back against central government thinking on COVID measures.
In order to win a majority in the upcoming election the Conservative Party is targeting traditional Labour strongholds that voted Leave.
The perception of an immigrant threat in Europe is often thought to be driven by rising numbers of asylum seekers, but research indicates that political and media discourses are often the driving factor.
Anglo-Saxon opposition to the Norman conquest lasted for years after the Battle of Hastings.
Labour candidate Jim McMahon wins with a comfortable majority – without really mentioning his party leader at all.
How to communicate across centuries of misunderstanding and dispossession.
Greater Manchester is to get its own directly elected mayor to preside over regional issues. The new mayor will have powers over transport, housing, planning and policing in a devolution deal worth more…
Over the years I’ve written a lot about global north-south issues. Yet until now, I’ve never said a word about the same divide within England, my own country of birth and residence. But the two overlap…
The north of England, along with the central belt of Scotland, created the world we live in today. But the fundamental problems the region now faces stem from the very industrial revolution that shaped…
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