Will Self: London thinks only of itself. The rest of the country is just there to be bled dry

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Good article; at least the move of part of the BBC to Salford might even things up a bit

How to restart industry when you're competing against the rest of the world, I don't know. I remember being taught about 'industrial inertia' in geography, when industries build up skills and infrastructure in one area, and then keep it there, because it's hard to create that from scratch, even if any original advantage (eg raw materials) has since disappeared; and Thatcher's determination to throw away industry, rather than modernise it, threw away that inertia.