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“... in universities and those who aren’t: Ali, Watkins, the late Alexander Cockburn, Wypijewski, Tom Hazeldine. NLR’s editorial standards are demanding, and at least two of the contributors here are hands-on editors at NLR, which accounts for the quality of the writing. Keeping watch over the journal is the octogenarian duo, Anderson and Ali: the odd ...”

“... there had been an upsurge in commentary on the ‘North-South divide’ over the previous decade. Tom Hazeldine suggests that the phrase ‘entered the political lexicon’ in 1980 via the Lancashire Tory MP John Lee, who announced that ‘those of us who represent the regions are increasingly aware of the North-South divide, as 21st-century industry is ...”

“... The role of nostalgia in the reconfiguration of British politics explains the paradox noted by Tom Hazeldine in The Northern Question (2020): it is precisely the places with a strong tradition of working-class solidarity – the constituencies dominated by traditional industries – which have defected from left to right. In 2019 Bishop Auckland in ...”