Fortress London: The definitive book about Levelling Up and why it matters

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He founded several castles along the way, but took a circuitous route toward London; [54] [55] only when he reached Canterbury did he turn towards England's largest city. There is very real inequality in the UK, and London's preeminence holds the rest of the nation back.

To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. The reunification of the former Communist East Germany with capitalist West Germany in the 1990s is especially instructive. The innermost ward encloses an area immediately south of the White Tower, stretching to what was once the edge of the River Thames. I partially deviate from Bright’s assessment here due to other factors causing the loss for Labour in 2019 primarily misinformation from right wing media, which disguised the negative consequences of the policy of austerity. Secreted inside the foliage will be a line of steel and concrete bollards capable of stopping an eight-ton truck driving head-on at 40 miles per hour.Why do the Houses of Parliament have better physical protection than other parliamentary facilities, such as Portcullis House or the Norman Shaw buildings?

New creations included a new defensive perimeter, studded with towers, while on the west, north, and east sides, where the wall was not defended by the river, a defensive ditch was dug.Bright associates the failure of Labour in 2019 with agitations in the Red Wall against centralised urban centres, not so much a focus on London but a neglect of areas that were not deemed as useful for growth, or a productive part of the ‘post-industrial, technological, university-educated economy’. He shows, for example, how private education gives students an unfair advantage which translates into better life chances. The design, the firm explained, was inspired by European castles—not in having 20-foot-thick stone walls and chutes for showering boiling oil down on the enemy, but in that the building’s defensive strategy would be hidden in the landscape. In sectors which are already steeped in elitism, geographic immobility worsens chances for those who aim to access these professions. I’d love to be able to share something like this with those I know are interested in solutions to Britain’s current mess but I fear they will lose heart - being shouted at, even in the written word, is not an enjoyable or effective way to learn.

Marvel at the historic armour of Henry VIII, Charles I and James II in the Line of Kings at the White Tower. When I began reading this book on the train to Cambridge from Leeds to visit a college friend at University there, I was surprised, and proud, to find that Sam Bright had gone to the same college for A-Levels as me, several years before.The result is that regional inequalities are more profound in Britain and the two countries are travelling in opposite directions. It is in this context that ‘Levelling Up’ is correctly portrayed as a partisan election tool rather than a serious attempt at tackling regional inequalities.