This programme had a difficult agenda to fulfill because while John Harris was demonstrating there is such a thing as a north-south divide, where those in the north have a comparatively worse standard of living, he also wanted to show it isn't that grim and places like Hull are worth investing in.
I wish he'd have gone further, though, and asked why there is such a striking difference in numbers in people going to higher education in some parts of the country than others, and why some areas are always at the bottom of the education league tables. I couldn't help wondering if he'd been given a remit to be temperate rather than angry especially as he refrained from shouting out those southerners who think all the 'talent' of the country is or should be concentrated on the periphery of Cambridge.
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