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

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The only way things are going to improve is if people take the radical optimism in northern cultural history and use that as the basis for a more confident and assertive northern identity – and the positive political reforms that might follow from it.

The North Will Rise Again by Alex Niven – Shiny New Books The North Will Rise Again by Alex Niven – Shiny New Books

Barely three years after the film’s release, aged just twenty-nine, Dunbar died of a brain hemorrhage after collapsing on the floor of a local pub. It is an attempt to create a new myth for the North, one that can forge a popular cultural socialist politics from deindustrialization’s battered ruinscapes. The heraldic emblem most closely associated with Manchester is a worker bee, which appears on the city's coat of arms, as well as on the University's sealand on the logos of various businesses associated with Manchester (including Boddington ale); thus, "bees on sticks" could refer to a flag or banner, or possibly a cudgel with the city's symbol affixed or emblazoned upon it. 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. Lewis, an Anglo-American novelist, painter, and open fascist sympathizer who was privately educated at the ur-establishment Rugby School, might seem a strange lodestar for northern futurism.

I don't know if Wilson and Smith had any kind of relationship, but the confident and condescending tone of the character in the song does remind me of Wilson.

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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. Obviously that didn’t work for a whole range of other specific reasons but one could envisage a future UK Federal model also spiking the guns of independence for Scotland. It is rather naive of the author to believe that the imposition of a political mayor on the North East region of England will make the slightest contribution to its prosperity. In the decade after the financial crisis of 2008, government spending per capita on public transport was 2. The swingeing cuts of the austerity years lead to a “civic cut and run,” in which public services retreated in the face of unrelenting government cuts: in many areas of the North, those cuts were twice as big as their southern equivalents.Only a few months earlier, Margaret Thatcher had won a hard-fought general election, and on taking office she was determined to clear away the detritus of British industry anatomized by Wiener. See the song Cut My Hair by The Who in Quadrophenia where Jimmy sings of his mum finding his 'box of blues'. He's got tentacles that's why he had to go underground, it's like his face started leaking, I've always imagined him as some sort of a Big Youth character cursed with this mystical insight.

The North Will Rise Again - Bloomsbury Publishing

Needless to say, he is not a character in the ‘well-rounded’ Forsterian sense so much as a carrier of mythos, an inter-textual linkage between Pulp fragments.Dan Smith’s optimistic plans for Newcastle’s future and Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts (the latter of which would not have existed without the 1960s Morden Tower poetry boom). Hosted on January 30 (Liverpool) and 31 (Manchester), the gigs will take place at the Invisible Wind Factory and Gorilla respectively.