They Can Shove It Up Their Arts

Sunday MirrorJuly 15, 2007

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I'VE heard some patronising tosh in my time but a degree in Northern Studies? How much more insulting does it get - to the people of the North that is?

This swipe at the North and indirectly at the working classes has come in the form of a Master of Arts Course at - wait for it - Leeds University, where you'd think the so called academics would have more sense than to devise a course that not only perpetuates the Us and Them stereotype, but more importantly acknowledges that the so- called North-South Divide is wide enough to warrant a course that's all about justifying the North and its achievements.

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They Can Shove It Up Their Arts

Now as a 100 per cent fully-fledged Geordie I take huge exception to this. Why on Earth should Northerners have to tell everyone how fantastic they are and that th...

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