The English Midlands is unjustly overlooked
Not least by its own inhabitants
British people tend to think in binaries, suggests Richard Parker, the mayor of the West Midlands. Right and wrong, good and bad, north and south. “There’s a big bit of the country that gets forgotten about,” he says. And that forgetting, which is partly the fault of people in the middle part of England, is a drawback in an increasingly sharp-elbowed country.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “So central, yet so ignored”
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