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

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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.

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They have a beef that goes back centuries”: what Tony Soprano once said of the Balkans could be said of Newcastle and Sunderland.

Many of his ships sank but prudent insurance, laying off the commercial risks, enabled him to continue to prosper. 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. Dunbar was born in 1961 and raised in a working-class family on the Buttershaw estate, a social housing complex built on open moorland on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire, which would later become a byword for deprivation.

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The speaker, Joe Totale, has not yet been born, and he is speaking of the future death of his father, R. The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice. The more general point made in the book is that whatever happens, you have to go beyond short-termist slogans like ‘levelling up’ and ‘Northern Powerhouse’ to offer radical reform of the North and its relation to the centralised British system. Niven’s new northern metaphor is one of progressive and modernizing change against the Tory southern elites. On 17th April 1980, BBC 2 showed a documentary with the title Never in a Thousand Years, in which David Jessel interviewed white Zimbabweans/Rhodesians (and not to be confused with a different documentary from December 1980 with the title .

Yet little changed under Tony Blair, except for the odd gimcrack bauble that sprouted on former industrial land, like the ostentatious and commercially driven urban regeneration projects seen at Salford’s gaudy Quays development and on Gateshead’s Tyneside.