Paula Byrne: belief

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…Now, one hears often of a human capital crisis in Northern England in particular, which, of course, is where you’re from. How would you diagnose that? Because it did not exist in earlier times. What has happened there? Is it just deindustrialization, or there’s something else in the story? Again, it’s complicated, isn’t it? I was just thinking of The Full Monty when you said that, that brilliant film about the emasculation of men, when women could get jobs and it was the men pushing the prams. I can remember seeing that in the North: the shipbuilding industry, Cammell Laird’s closing, and you suddenly see more men pushing babies in the prams. It really did make me think of The Full Monty when you said that. I think tourism — since Liverpool was capital of culture, it became really more prosperous again, and people were getting jobs, and there were the garden festivals. I’ve seen such big changes, but I’ve been away from it for so long, Tyler. I’ve been away from the North. I haven’t really been back for a long time. My sense when I’ve gone back to Liverpool is, it seems to be thriving. It feels prosperous in a way it didn’t in the ’80s when I was growing up. It wasn’t. It’s great. I went there during the pandemic. I loved it. It’s fantastic.…

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