Luvvies are not enough: the north needs more than Channel 4 | Simon Jenkins

The broadcaster’s relocation to Leeds will go only a little way towards easing a London-centric biasAnd the winning destination of the year is … Leeds! Well done to its boss, council leader Judith Blake. Well done, Yorkshire. The fairy godmothers of Whitehall have sent Channel 4 kicking and screaming north of Potters Bar. Its executives must now wander the steps of the Headrow and the banks of the Aire, like Ovid in exile. No one can begrudge Yorkshire a PR victory over the titans o