There’s *one* British road movie: Radio On, which I think I’ve posted about before. A youthful Sting has a cameo. I really enjoy the great open road and the sense of frontier in the US. In the UK, it… (View Post)
Interesting response. Your mind goes to, “this needs to be qualified”. Someone else posted, “someone is making a killing”. My mind goes to, “this sounds like an over-regulated producer-captured hells… (View Post)
Fascinating comment by the Dudley’s Tory council leader in the FT yesterday. Like most councils now, Dudley is facing financial difficulty and is “struggling to maintain roads and parks”. “We were fl… (View Post)
Quite a few of the “metros” in the UK are not mono-centric, like London, Manchester and - I’d argue, Bristol - are. Leeds is really Leeds-Bradford, and the West Yorks metro is really “Leeds-Bradford,… (View Post)
If you have a look a a map, Manchester sits like a hub at the centre, and all the surrounding towns clearly operate as supporting nodes. It’s also a single economic geography, per “travel to work are… (View Post)