this fantasy thing happened in the music scene where it's all escapism and of course I reacted to that which is where Joe Totale, R. So instead of taking a simple linear narrative form, the book explores different aspects of Northern life and culture, and Niven opens the book by considering how a part of the country which was dynamic, and at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution, has regressed into a post-deindustrialization wasteland. Do Geordies and Scousers, for example, have more in common than just an understandable resentment of Southern and, particularly, Westminster hegemony and superciliousness?

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In many respects the Trade Union barons who emerged in the 20th century to challenge the oligarchs could be similarly feudal — especially Durham miners’ leaders such as John Wilson, Peter Lee and Sam Watson.

But Niven finds inspiration in his early work of the 1910s for the magazine BLAST, with its iconoclastic and violent rejection of the staid and privileged world of southern modernism. The Battle of Culloden was the final conflict in the Second Jacobite Rising, an attempt to put the Catholic Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie," also known as "The Young Pretender") on the throne of England and Scotland. The Nationalisation and subsequent demise of the coal industry sucked much of the basis for prosperity out of the region.

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It seems to have been a Saturday/Sunday show, so if we think there might be any real-world content to the lyric (which does seem unlikely) then the shows on 28th and 29th June would likely be the ones to focus on first. It isn’t, though, equally reasonable to apply the term to elected heads of regions or largely rural areas. Against the accounts of those other great modern capitals — Paris, London, or New York — the cities of the North of England “were the real capitals of modernity,” Niven claims, exhibiting a “rebel commitment to modernism and progressive change. If Johnson’s catch-phrase “ take back control” means anything, it is the Burkean tradition of bottom up not top down government that used to distinguish this country from our European neighbours and everyone else. By the late 1970s the Scottish supporters were said to outnumber the English ones, though this may be apocryphal.Not only that, it disempowered the civic and associational institutions that had once had the confidence to tackle the scourge of poverty in old age, or build something as beautiful as South Shields Town Hall, where the debates “ had the importance of those in Cicero’s Senate or Pitt’s House of Commons“. Given its distinctiveness, it’s hardly surprising that the region has a long history of being run as a separate political unit.

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Specter versus Rector' ('I've waited since Caesar for this') had rendered this clash in a harsh Murnau black and white ; on Grotesquethe struggle is painted in colours as florid as those used on the album’s garish sleeve (the work of Smith's sister). The speaker, Joe Totale, has not yet been born, and he is speaking of the future death of his father, R. Well, Niven’s argument is for a more regionalised government of England, one first brokered in his earlier book New Model Island, and this is at the heart of The North… He explores deeply the concept of splitting the country into regional assemblies with more autonomy to self-govern and a fairer share of funding to every area. Dan Smith, the modernizing leader of Newcastle City Council with his ultimately doomed attempt to turn his home city into the “Brasilia of the North,” as typifying these progressive social democratic dreams.The headliners in Liverpool are The Lightning Seeds, while closing out the gig in Manchester will be The Charlatans. Not in 10,000 years" - this lyric is repeated once, like the lines right before it: Joe Totale saying (? in the issue of Wednesday 2 July 1980 (p17), various events attended by various royalty including the Queen are reported as having taken place the previous day (Tuesday 1 July).