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

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Reading about the latest development, I was particularly delighted (and not a little surprised) that the seven North East councils have managed to overcome the parochialism and local rivalries that have stymied municipal coordination in the region. 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.

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Join Alex Niven, leading voice on Northern identity and culture, as he takes a fresh look at the roots and future of the North-South divide.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. Totale, festooned in the incongruous Grotesque costume of ‘ostrich head-dress … feathers/orange-red with blue-black lines/…and light blue plant-heads’, is the would-be Faery King of this Weird Revolt who ends up its maimed Fisher King, abandoned like a pulp modernist Miss Havisham amongst the relics of a carnival that will never happen, a drooling totem of a defeated tilt at Social Realism, the visionary leader reduced, as the psychotropics fade and the fervour cools, to being a washed-up cabaret artiste once again. On the current basis of comparing it to median incomes, the child poverty rate given a particular income distribution would be completely unchanged by a ten-, hundred- or thousand-fold increase in incomes. Will you tell us about your writing, for instance 'The North Will Rise Again' from 'Grotesque' what's it about? What each has in common is a deep belief in forward movement: a thrusting, pulsing modernist spirit that echoes across the urban landscape of the industrial North.

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The armigerous families who then controlled the medieval North East, such as the Percys and the Nevilles, had an unusual degree of independence within an English polity that had centralised much earlier than its European neighbours. Against the accounts of those other great modern capitals — Paris, London, or New York — the cities of the North of England “were the real capitals of modernity,” Niven claims, exhibiting a “rebel commitment to modernism and progressive change. He started as a clerk and fitter ( a coal fitter being a coal broker) and acquired considerable prosperity through making contacts and shrewd commercial gambles in acquiring interests in coal mines, ships and quarries. The book isn’t an attempt to have a go at London in a reductive way, but I do think you need to examine the statistical basis of regional inequality in Britain and say: this is even more shocking than the received narrative. To what extent are the crises of the last ten years partly the result of fundamental divides and inequalities in the geography of England?The speaker, Joe Totale, has not yet been born, and he is speaking of the future death of his father, R.