Alex Niven

Ten years ago, George Osborne shared his party’s vision for a more prosperous, more autonomous, better-connected North. Was it one of the biggest duds in recent British politics?

In an excerpt from his new book The North Will Rise Again, Alex Niven traces a lineage from the Beatles and Factory Records, to the psychedelic thinkers enduring the political landscape of today.

2020 in review: The reluctance of the government to provide aid for virus-hit Manchester this autumn struck many in the North of England as unfair. Now the region is making increasingly loud demands for representation.