Showing posts with label The North. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The North. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Why would anyone leave London?

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On the 27th July 1987 I set off, suitcase in hand, from Kent House Station to arrive some four hours or so later at Bradford Interchange....
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Wednesday, 13 November 2019

On UnHerd - my argument that the North should stop trying to be like London.

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Let's turn off the Northern Powerhouse... Most of the North is not urban, is not in a state of seemingly terminal decline and is...
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Sunday, 22 September 2019

If the North wants to succeed it needs to place more value on enterprise than it does on government

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Rather , the evidence shows that the strongest predictors of cross-national variation in entrepreneurial activity were normative, with so...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2019

Would cutting income tax for young people stop the North's brain drain?

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Poland has announced a dramatic tax policy: Poles under the age of 26 who earn less than 85,528 Polish zloty ($22,547) a year will be ex...
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Tuesday, 24 July 2018

It's time to stop obsessing about trains - they aren't the infrastructure solution we need

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Let's imagine for a minute that I'm going to give you several billion pounds for the purpose of making the North of England's in...
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Sunday, 10 June 2018

The North's biggest assets are not its big cities - they're its problem

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Most analyses of England's "North" start and finish with industrial decline and the ever-deepening divide between North and So...
Tuesday, 5 April 2016

'Growth for The North' - taking local ownership of the Northern Powerhouse

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At a recent LGA meeting we heard from Lord Adonis, chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission and former transport minister. It ...
Thursday, 4 February 2016

A bad week for culture in Bradford (and The North)

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It has been a lousy week for culture in Bradford . First we had the announcement that the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) collection ...
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Friday, 23 January 2015

A question...

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**** What if the projections are wrong? What if, rather than the city growing younger and larger it grows older and smaller? What if the e...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Regenerating the North - a start...

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There was a small storm when The Economist spoke of the problems facing the more peripheral Northern towns and cities: The fate...
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Monday, 18 March 2013

Business & politics - why Heseltine is wrong

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**** There's a sort of conservatism - let's call it the "business right" - that sees politics through the prism of a thi...
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013

The Smith Institute (unwittingly) spots the North's problem...

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**** Amidst a turgid, dreary and special interest laden report, The Smith Institute , the world's last remaining centre of Brownite th...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Heseltine was wrong in 1982, wrong in 1992. He's still wrong in 2012.

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**** I don’t know where to start with Lord Heseltine’s review . Perhaps with the bits I agree with – elected mayors, for example. Or ...
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