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Great photo . . . . From our " Northern England " correspondent . . . .fuksake!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/09/birmingham-woman-standing-i...

In reply to coinneach:

I agree to suggest Brum is northern England shows that the guardian does revolve around London.

In reply to coinneach:

The fewer people who find out about the actual North, the better...

If you partition the country into north and south based on equal populations, I'm guessing the line falls a bit north of Birmingham.

In reply to wintertree:

My mate says Cockneys start at Meadowhall.....

In reply to coinneach:

Maybe the northern England correspondent was passing by Birmingham on his way from Carlisle to London?

In reply to coinneach:

If only she had offered him a can of Pepsi...

In reply to wintertree:


If you partition England into 3 equal parts from the lizard to Marshall meadows (cos brum is in the midlands), the north starts just north of Ripon. Still far too far south to be considered the real north which obviously starts at the tyne.

In reply to graeme jackson:

No no no! The real North.. that is the heartland of English culture, science, industry and most importantly, fine ale, clearly doesn't extend to include the barbarians north of the Tyne!

I note the Guardian recognising this with its forthcoming decision to pull out of the provinces and relocate to its Manchester roots.

In reply to graeme jackson:

The Pennines belong to Northern England. All of them.

In reply to coinneach:


I'm a bit torn about our bit of the Staffordshire/Cheshire border. It's obviously ridiculous to call it the North, and yet to admit it's the Midlands would mean that I've never managed to escape my origins.

That photo, though, that's a real enigmatic Mona Lisa smile. It's quizzical, it's amused, it's a bit condescending - what it's not is intimidated or afraid.

In reply to summo:

Which of course they haven't done, they have however used a North of England reporter (based in Manchester) to cover a Birmingham story. The Guardian has very strong links to Manchester, orginally being the Manchester Guardian and has a team of journalists based in the city. Birmingham stories that are covered by staff journalists are presumably covered by either London or Manchester based journalists. The sub-editor should have spotted that using the journalists job title would look odd, even if it is technically correct.

In reply to coinneach:

I'd suggest the centre of gravity of shoulder occupying potato based dinner accompaniments is much, much further north than Birmingham.

In reply to XXXX:


On these threads, it's usually the Gatwick area.

In reply to The New NickB:

That's a coincidence, that's right where I am now... oh

In reply to coinneach:

Once Scotland gets independence and Yorkshire and Cumbria petition to join them Birmingham can be classed as the north.

In reply to coinneach:

My plumber, who is a local man by birth and not well travelled, believes that the north starts at Temple Cloud.

For all that his geographical experience may be limited, he is a good plumber.

T.