One of the really weird things about the grammar school thing is that the nostalgia is for the bit of the Butler act that was never really enacted. The secondary tech that concentrated on high quality industry focused education.
I don't think this is about improving things for the minority.
I think it's for elderly voters who see low demand for graduates and want their grandchildren to have the opportunities they had without higher ed.
So, kill improved educational attainment and you kill the HE path.
The west half of North Yorkshire exist primarily as a vehicle for anxieties about being "not Bradford, not urban" in the 70s. I don't really think that much has changed.
I suppose all the places that were "lost" were peripheral to the rest of the county and also to the places they were appended to.
I think it gives a certain type of politically active person a motif to suggest nefarious external interference in local business.
Glyn Hughes writing about Saddleworth in the 70s thought the irredentism was mostly incoming commuters who were appalled they might have Oldham overspill estates.
I have a vague recollection of an article where people under 40 in Barnoldswick didn't know, or care, they used to be in Yorkshire.
The built environment in Dewsbury is exceptional. A living rebuke to the idea that architectural beauty means magic economic development.
I wonder what it would be for people who left at 18, never to return, and decided to make it their bit.
Boring
Hot air balloonist
Mage 3rd level
Engineer in textiles, tool making, confectionery, clock making, also AEU rep and perpetual mardarse hence frequent changes of employer.
Blacksmith/farrier or quarryman/reservoir construction depending on the economic cycle.
Could anyone arrange for non-deliverism to be dead?
I like Henderson's but I would never push it as without Lea & Perrin's some people will be pushed to go on about Elgar and shit.
"It's none of your business what I'm hiding under the cache-misère of my own mythology!"
"Richard! Stop hiding under a cache-misère of your own mythology! We have guests!"
Yeah, but it made lots of sense prior to the development of the dual economy in the West riding from about 1500 onwards.
One Yorkshire was right, just 600 years late.
Ant is right about the Cornwall solution here.
Annoyingly the reason the Cornwall solution exists is because of the mad idea that holds in the UK that devolving power is validated by cultural/national difference rather than the institutional base that developed to recognise that difference.
Accurately conveys the feeling of excitement when someone from Leeds experiences mass transit systems.
I just want to find ways to fuck up North Yorkshire and Cheshire.
Much of the country doesn't want or need more powers. The secondary cities do and for the most part have deals that can be ratcheted.
I don't even think you need to bring in the hinterlands a la Redcliffe-Maud.
Just give the cities the right to levy a local income tax supp by employer location.
For more on the problem of "elite projection" -- the tendency of elites to support transit plans that cater to their own tastes -- see here: humantransit.org/2017/07/the-...
From the last Gilded Age to the present one, elite disinterest remains one of the greatest barriers to great and inclusive public transit. This 1929 ad makes the same argument we must make today. 1/
If you are running a large global hedge fund, I'll happily come and show you this magical thing called "a map" for a 10k daily rate
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My daughter's friend went there last year on a school trip. I still think the teachers who made that decision should be banned from the profession.
I don't know what the educational value of a week of shopping is, I don't even think you can study GCSE criminology.
There's a lot of mean-spiritedness about people who have gone to live in Dubai. We need to help, and ensure they have secure accommodation in the UK for 91 days of the next tax year.
The worst record covers in the world exhibition returns home.
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There is an artful rhetoric to how Farage pretends to have just discovered the Commonwealth francise with "I have checked this out legally and I am right"
Much stronger case for Scandi countries to learn from Britain on integration - if judge by educational outcomes for children of migrants, inclusion as a norm in professional & public life, longterm more contact & reduction in prejudice (despite 2020s polarisation)
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
If I was the child of a civil engineer who studied at Lincoln college, before becoming a contract law barrister and MP, who then decided the bourgeoisie were the enemy, I too might long for the clarity of 1930s class structures to go with the fact that I could be a character from a 1930s novel.
Might start a very modern and relevant Labour party to campaign for repeal of the corn laws, universal male suffrage, a ten hour factory act and to oppose the poor law amendments.
Oastler, and no Bastile!
Also reality: the Greens won because of a wholesale transfer of large numbers of basically, every type of Labour voter imaginable, for both ideological and practical reasons.
