No, we don’t need to build new, new towns.* What we need to do is unlock the economic potential of the 18m people who live within a 100km radius of Stoke-on-Trent. It’s the third-biggest such stretch… (View Post)

I think this rivalry is only really problematic within a system where Whitehall actually governs Yorkshire and South Hampshire to a degree pretty much unseen in other countries. Rivalry between New Y… (View Post)

The drag queen seems to be doing some kind of national tour, fine. The question is why Tate Britain is hosting. I don’t think this is a massive issue, obviously, and I deplore the idiotic protesters,… (View Post)

Well it starts with transport infrastructure, radical devolution, industrial strategy and R&D. The people of these cities haven’t consciously opted for low living standards, they’re just trapped … (View Post)

Obviously that equivalence is insane, and the protestors are mentalists. But why *has* Tate Britain employed a drag queen for its “nursery storytime”? (View Post)