Gove’s plans for poorer towns show we’re finally starting to think about longer-term solutions | ✍️ Emma Duncan
Emma Duncancertain amount of ridicule has been directed at the government’s white paper on levelling up for devoting several pages to the rise and fall of ancient cities. Perhaps it was not strictly necessary to remind the voters that it took a full millennium for Uruk to replace Tell-Brak as the world’s largest metropolis, and 600 years for Lagash to outpace Memphis. Perhaps the spurious classical references are there because they are catnip to the prime minister.
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