The north of the country is sensible, hard working and thrifty. The south is careless, lazy, corrupt. It could be anywhere. Our correspondent retraces caesar's steps and sorts the facts from the fanciful. E exodus of residence from the central city to surrounding towns must begin to day aland is america's new mago markin at the highest spendable income for household in the nation.
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences. After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
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