It’s Our Turn
Rory Scothorne: Where the North Begins, 4 August 2022
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country
by Tom Hazeldine.
Verso, 290 pp., £11.99, September 2021,978 1 78663 409 2 Show More
by Tom Hazeldine.
Verso, 290 pp., £11.99, September 2021,
“... in power is scathing, showing the failure to disrupt the pattern of southern capture and control. Ramsay MacDonald’s chancellor, Philip Snowden, was one of several senior northerners in the fragile interwar Labour governments. He bought a ‘big house’ in Surrey and was so ‘awestruck’ by the Bank of England that he agreed to ‘balance the books on ... ”