Pudden and pies in the Great Divide

The North-South divide - the Watford Gap, as it is sometimes known - is at its widest for 60 years, according to a study. So what else is new? It was ever thus. The first thing we learned at school was that there is up here and down there (or, as a Southerner would have it, up there and down here) and never the twain shall meet. We are two nations. So it is, and so it ever shall be - and as a Northerner through... [read full story]