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It is worth stating from the off that what we don't want to do is declare what 'it', 'the Northern Powerhouse' is, or to try to predict how that concept may or may not roll out in concrete form. What we want to do here is to present the Northern Powerhouse as a kind of prism, being viewed from different sides, through different facets. The light, of course, bends at different angles through a prism, into different colours, a process called 'dispersion'. So we want to examine how ‘the Northern Powerhouse’, that big, slab-like, declarative name, actually operates as a disperser of different political colours and structures of feeling, in our present moment.
