Border closures between Sahelian and coastal countries have had devastating consequences for the regional economy.
Infrastructure development in Northern England has been increasingly muddled in recent years. Few will be convinced by Sunak’s new pledge to fix this.
Why addressing inequality in ‘left-behind’ places requires more than ‘levelling up’.
Interviewees spoke of an expectation, starting in childhood, that when you grow up, you need to go to “the big smoke”.