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I'm down South and on the wrong side of the Pennines 😉!

A wide road with tramways passes a station with tall buildings in the distance.

‘Talent agents love our northern accents – it helps us stand out’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/talent-agents-love-northern-accents-32277168

Could someone please tell me why our new government seems determined to follow the same failed strategy as the previous one for growing the economy. Surely they've noticed that pumping more money into the South East isn't working.

#northumberland #northsouthdivide

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/16/north-of-england-labour-north-south-divide-tyne-bridge?CMP=share_btn_url

Organizers Fight The Greenwashing Of Plastic Pollution

#PlasticPollutionCrisis #FossilFuelIndustry #ChemicalRecycling #NorthSouthDivide #Greenwashing

https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/113755987977136472

Northern women forced to provide £10bn in unpaid care a year due to hole in NHS provision | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/unpaid-care-northern-women-more-b2605758.html

#NHS
#NHSCrisis
#Carers
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#HealthEquityNorth
#InformalCare
#Disabled
#LongTermSick
#ChronicallyIll
#NHSServices
#NorthernEngland
#Women
#BenefitCuts
#PublicHealthFunding
#Funding
#NorthSouthDivide

People in North of England 'Live Shorter, Sicker, Poorer Lives Simply Because of Where They Were Born' – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/03/01/people-in-north-of-england-live-shorter-sicker-poorer-lives-simply-because-of-where-they-were-born/

#Northerners
#NorthSouthDivide
#Inequalities
#LifeExpectancy
#ChronicIllness
#IPPR
#IPPRNorth
#LevellingUp
#Poverty
#WealthGap

Wealth doesn’t trickle down by itself. An active state must ensure wealth is distributed fairly and public services funded properly | Jon Trickett

#Democracy #NorthSouthDivide #LevellingUp #GeneralElectionNow
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the-local-government-financial-settlement-for-2024-25-is-not-nearly-good-enough/?feed_id=1332&_unique_id=65cf0529a9b5f

Is India’s North-South Divide a Challenge to Hindutva?

It is no mystery that social justice and Hindutva are hurtling towards a definitive show down. A battle with no middle ground and the taking of prisoners, most unlikely.

#NorthSouthDivide #BJP #NarendraModi #hindutva #communalism #economy #GST #demonetisation #INC #INDIAAlliance #india #bookstodon #books

https://thewire.in/politics/is-indias-north-south-divide-a-challenge-to-hindutva

🗞️The northern crisis: addressing stark regional inequality

London-centric governments have neglected, underfunded and undervalued the North; regional parties are fighting back with devolution agendas | John Hall

Post Growth and the North-South Divide: a post-Keynesian stock-flow consistent analysis—New CUSP working paper by Dario Leoni, Andrew Jackson and
@ProfTimJackson
→ https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/wp38

cc #PostGrowth #Degrowth #BeyondGrowth #PostCroissance #Decroissance #Decrecimiento #Decrescenza #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #SystemDynamics #PostKeynesian #Globalisation #Growth #Transition #GlobalSouth #NorthSouthDivide

Not that I'm asked on forms but think of myself as from the #Midlands , living and aligned with the #North (of England, though lots of planets have a North) and am quite sensitive to #NorthSouthDivide and #NotLivingInLondon

Really interesting article (discussed in the Conversation 26Nov22 @TheConversationUK) comparing #greenspaces in cities (>100,000) in GB (authors couldn’t access some data for Northern Ireland, so not full UK) - lots of take homes here relating to #healthinequality #levellingup #northsouthdivide #socialdeprivation #pollution + interesting point about possible repurposing of empty #citycentre spaces/buildings https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276962

#NorthSouthDivide

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