What does the North mean in the 21st century and is it worth fighting for?

In the North will rise again, Alex Niven offers a powerful and compelling look

at the marginalization and decline of the North of England in recent years, and asks, what can be done to me? and Andy Burnham is a great book and Madeline Bunton is fascinating and provocative.

The North Will Rise Again is available in Paperback wherever books are sold.

Man, big thanks to Alkabob for helping put this thing together. I talked about wanted to do a

game show like kind of ripping off the floor, the Roblo Fox TV game show that is basically trivial. of the

game show that is basically trivia and territory taking territory

and alcobab really worked as magic to make this thing

actually function just like the game show.

Nice.

Each of you, the 16 players you see on this grid, each owned their little square of territory

and they each brought with us their specialty category.

We're going to randomly choose, the game is going to randomly choose a player and that player

will have to challenge one of the people around him, top,

bottom left and right, not diagonal,

so people that they share a wall with for territory,

but they challenge them in their category. So for example, if Burgess got

randomly picked, even though his category is beer, he would go against One Sleepy

Panda in the category of Tolkien, he would go against I-Corps and

Return of the Jedi trivia, he'd go against Scott and Art and Video Games

category or TRPW in British Sci-Fi TV. So only people he shares a wall with. Not diagonal, never diagonal, right? Never

diagonal, always orthogonal, I believe is the phrase, right? Got it. Next door, neighbors, and people above you and below you and that's it.

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