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A great post, and the bit about Reeves and her ‘silicon valley’ deserves to reach a wider audience. I have written to The Guardian today suggesting they run regional takes by regional writers like yourself, starting with you. Keep up the good work.🐰

For the record, my letter to The Guardian:

The Chancellor’s plans to create a ‘Silicon Valley’ between Oxford and Cambridge and extend Heathrow (Guardian, 29 January) contradict so much of what she says about wanting to help poorer regions. I did not know the places she has chosen suffer from a lack of investment, poor productivity, zero innovation and are so in desperately in need of a fresh start to quote North-Easterner Arlen Pettitt*

Surely the logical place for all this investment would be between Stockton and Darlington, and across the North and Midlands, this being the 200th anniversary of the world’s first passenger railway? They made it happen then. They can make it happen again.

* It is about time The Guardian made space for regional writers, thinkers and activists like Arlen Pettit, who I read on substack: (https://open.substack.com/pub/worroom)

Robert Howard

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