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...fact that despite the gloss of affluence over London, and despite Manchester's massive ?250 million urban-renewal program, too much of the north-and other areas too-feels neglected by the planners in the capital. In the gloom of Glasgow tenements, the shoddy dock areas of Liverpool and in blackened, beaten-down Leeds, the shadows thicken. "People are fed up," says Liberal Candidate Willis Pickard in Edinburgh, "with being run from Westminster and Whitehall." Over the entire north, unemployment has risen from 2% four years ago to 5.2% last year. Half the unemployed are men tinder...
England might have been less shocked to find Buckingham Palace transformed into the Royal Arms Motel. A great British institution-and perhaps the Empire's most far-flung export since the Thin Red Line-seemed in peril. From Liverpool to Piccadilly, the cries of anguish rent the air: "The Beatles are dead...
Common Humanity. In Act I, Behan is a boy of 16, an idealistic dupe of the Irish Republican Army just after the outbreak of World War II. He is captured in Liverpool even before he can open his suitcase full of explosives. In the local jail, he is brutally beaten by his captors and mocked and bullied by most of his fellow captives, who share a vindictively narrow loathing for the Irish and Catholicism, not to mention the I.R.A...
...this basically serious exercise in parody, Maclnnes adopts the young narrator-adventurer common to 18th century fiction. He is one Alexander Nairn, a pushy Scots lad but a bit of a Presbyterian prig. Alexander ships from Liverpool on a slaver carrying blacks from Africa on the final leg of their journey to West Indian sugar plantations...
...economists and demographers is that the population explosion should be checked by making birth control devices and counseling more widely available, particularly to poor people. Nonsense, says a scientist writing in the British journal, New Society. According to Peter J. Smith, a lecturer in geophysics at the University of Liverpool, the problem - at least in the U.S. -is not lack of birth control but excess desire for children...