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Summer Silly Season

by Sean

When the radio came on this morning, I thought there'd been a time shift and it was April Fool's Day. As I struggled into consciousness I began to remember it was August and the annual news "silly season". In fact, what I heard was so silly it really was quite funny...

There was a talking head on the Today programme telling us all that basically northern cities should be closed down and we should all move to Oxford and Cambridge! You've got to laugh, haven't you?

The fact that a right wing think tank comes up with a theory that northern cities are beyond revival (someone should have told John Lewis before they opened their superb new store in Liverpool the other week) maybe isn't that surprising. The fact that Today dedicated an earnest five minutes at prime time to this dross was. It might seem that there's not much news at the moment, except The Olympics and the Russian invasion of Georgia, but come on, there must be something better than that!

I won't be packing my bags to move down south just yet - but then I do live in Chester. Is that city safe for the moment, do you think?

Posted at 3:43pm on 13^th August 2008