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    THE FIRE STILL BURNS

    Jun 06, 2022 4 minutes
    By Adrian Lobb

    We’ve heard a lot about the Red Wall in recent months. Mostly from politicians and commentators who have spent very little time within the towns, villages and communities of the region that spans largely working-class areas of the Midlands, north Wales and northern England.

    But writer James Graham grew up in an ex-mining village in Nottinghamshire. It’s in his bones. So, having taken us deep inside the Brexit campaigns with Brexit: The Uncivil War, explored the political melodrama of 2010 in Coalition, and written lockdown hit Quiz, he is now bringing his home town into focus.

    “Coming from a Red Wall community, I felt like there aren’t many writers who have that hinterland, so it was a responsibility I

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