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London home to a fifth of the UK's businesses

Graham Watson

7th October 2015

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If don't want to see the North-South divide, look away now", as the Saturday evening news might suggest. That statement itself strikes me as anachronistic: the rise of the Internet means most people know the scores and even if they want to avoid them, I don't think they've time to leave the living room.

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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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