It's a weird article. The focus on productivity is odd, especially comparing productive parts of the country to others. A lot of those parts of the country ser

It's a weird article. The focus on productivity is odd, especially comparing productive parts of the country to others. A lot of those parts of the country serve as dormitory towns to London, it's simplistic to say they are not productive - yes, but it's ignoring that all the jobs are in London and a few other places. A bad thing about many of these places is they don't have much "place" to them, there is barely any investment in the things that would make that happen. Even in places that don't suffer this there is short term thinking that means compared to London there is virtually no investment in transport outside of roads.