The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands

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Dear, oh, dear… the same pointless green dross trotted out again. The ‘green economy’, if it ever materialises, will probably look much like the current one. The economy of the future will, in fact, look much like the previous one. Blue-collar workers are increasing in status as university degrees become increasingly worthless. The whole point of Brexit, won largely by working-class votes, as Aris Roussinos explained in his recent piece, was It’s my 50th birthday in November, so I’d say 49 years! I never planned to write a biography about D… The postwar years were for Niven ones of “bold egalitarian strides” when, driven by a “rare sense of optimism and renewal,” experiments in modern civic culture sprung up across the North. He presents T. Dan Smith, the modernizing leader of Newcastle City Council with his ultimately doomed attempt to turn his home city into the “Brasilia of the North,” as typifying these progressive social democratic dreams. Driven by an almost religious zeal, Smith fundamentally reshaped the city’s physical environment, demolishing vast rows of Newcastle’s slums and engaging in a series of ambitious modernist construction projects in their stead. The contrast between Britain’s brief social-democratic, popular-modernist interlude and the neoliberal era that followed was stark. None of you mention this, concerned more with titles “mayor” or “sheriff”, perpetuating the top down government we have had since Attlee. If we are looking for historical precedent from the British Isles, then we could do worse than resurrect the title of Sheriff. Historically, sheriffs presided over counties, while mayors presided over towns and cities, so there’s an obvious synergy there. The argument that this would cause confusion with the ceremonial role of the High Sheriff isn’t really convincing, given that we don’t have a problem with there being both an elected Mayor of London and a ceremonial Lord Mayor of London. Most people can, most of the time, tell the difference. An elected Sheriff would be different to a High Sheriff, and both can coexist.

The North Will Rise Again Alex Niven interview

Like the proposed modest changes to the House of Lords, of “two out, one in”, extra government should only be on the basis of get rid of two layers if we must have a new layer. More about Roman Totale, from "The Prestwich Horror and Other Strange Stories", interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds magazine, 31 January 1981: In November 1569, hundreds of rebels assembled in this Market Place with the aim of re-establishing Catholic worship in the North. They swiftly captured Barnard Castle on the River Tees and widely reinstated the Mass, but by January the rebellion had failed and great numbers had been hanged here and elsewhere as traitors. To get your hands on the latest mag, you’ll have to buy one from one of our vendors. Vendors sell on agreed pitches in city centres and out of town areas across the North West, Yorkshire and Humber.

I don’t disagree with anything in the article, and the author makes a good case for regional devolution. But this does give me the opportunity to have my usual whinge about this particular topic. That is, the title “mayor” for the elected head of such an administration is entirely the wrong one.

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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother arrived at Royal Air Force Turnhouse this morning in an aircraft of The Queen's Flight and drove to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Alternatively, given that we’ve borrowed the idea from our former colonies in the first place, there’s no reason why we can’t borrow the terminology as well and call them Governors. That might be a step too far for those who object to the Americanisation of our politics and language, but it would at least have the advantage of being neither historically barbarous nor potentially ambiguous. Not too difficult, because I had a clearly defined start-point and a clearly defined end-point. Name… Dan submits thiis entry from the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, edited by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Vol 1, Routledge, 2006:Hi. I haven't spotted this yet. It kind of occurred to me that the "North" in this song could, among other things, also be a reference to the Northern Ireland / Ulster situation at the time? In some sense this would explain the revenge of Culloden dead. "But it would turn out wrong" might be a reference to the fact that Protestants won the battle, and killed thousands of Jacobite Irishmen and Scotsmen in the process. Meaning they've been screwed both ways really. Seems apt for a Mark E. Smith song of the period. Some good scholarship here guys. Not much significant to add but contextually, I thought any non-local readers/contributors might be interested to know that the Arndale referenced here and new in 1980 is of course the same shopping centre that was later severely damaged by the (IRA-planted) bomb that was pre-cog-ed in Powder Keg..... As for the trains, the Tyne and Wear Metro had its first passengers on August 11, 1980. The first service ,was from Haymarket to Tynemouth. Haymarket Metro station is situated 0,6 miles from what is now called the Tyne Theatre and Opera House, where The Fall played in Newcastle. Not inconceivable that MES could have seen the final stages of the construction (instead of having simply read about it)..

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But thinking more pragmatically, “rising again” simply means the North achieving something resembling parity with London and the South East – regional equality, or levelling up, if you must. I can’t really see how anyone of a faintly egalitarian bent could possibly object to this, but people find plenty of circuitous ways to do so. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? The argument of the book is, firstly, that beyond these nuances there is a common culture and history of the North, and secondly, more importantly, that the only way forward politically is to start to go past intra-regional rivalries and try to create some form of devolved pan-North governance, or at the very least large regional governing entities. The alternative is breaking the North into tiny civic units, which is what has happened under the Tories since 2010, and it hasn’t worked out too well. The form of ‘N.W.R.A.’ is as alien to organic wholeness as is Totale’s abominable tentacular body. It is a grotesque concoction, a collage of pieces that do not belong together. The model is the novella rather than the tale, and the story is told episodically, from multiple points of views, using a heteroglossic riot of styles and tones (comic, journalistic, satirical, novelistic): like ‘Call of Cthulhu’ re-written by the Joyce of Ulyssesand compressed into ten minutes.

Finally, interwoven with the commentary and history is your own story and memoir of growing up in the North. What does it mean to you to be a Northerner? The festival will be split across two days, with the 27 th March being live-streamed from Liverpool’s iconic Invisible Wind Factory. The Charlatans will headline, preceded by Red Rum Club and Zuzu. On 28th March, the festival will stream from Manchester’s recently-saved Gorilla, where The Lightning Seeds will top the bill, after performances by Ist Ist and LIINES.