Britain didn't lose its working class. It reorganised it — twice, using the same ideological hand. My latest piece traces the coordinated logic connecting deindustrialisation and the 1988 Education Re
Worth specifying that you are talking about England & Wales here, UNBELIEVABLY Scotland has its own education system, outwith the remit of English legislation - would that we had been free of the de-industrialisation of Thatcher as well!.
"North-South divide" has a different meaning depending on the geography (though I appreciate that the BBC and "major" news outlets consistently forget this...)
Worth specifying that you are talking about England & Wales here, UNBELIEVABLY Scotland has its own education system, outwith the remit of English legislation - would that we had been free of the de-industrialisation of Thatcher as well!.
"North-South divide" has a different meaning depending on the geography (though I appreciate that the BBC and "major" news outlets consistently forget this...)
You’re absolutely right on both counts — thank you.
The ERA was England and Wales legislation; Scotland’s distinct system deserves its own analysis, not a footnote omission.
And the North-South framing is lazier than the piece deserves — it reproduces the very metropolitan geography I’m arguing against.
Appreciate the care you’ve taken to raise these points and I’ll be revising to capture them accurately.