In the past 30 years, the UK's manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it? Before moving to Yale and becoming a bestselling historian, Paul Kennedy grew up on Tyneside in the 50s and 60s. "A world of great noise and much dirt," is how he remembers it, where the chief industry was building ships and his father and uncles were boilermakers in Wallsend. Last year the academic gave a lecture that reminisced a little about those days...

New Subaru XV As it was before - with dinosaurs, NEP, the communists and in the 90s - Subaru cars are perceived as an integral part of the motorsport world. All this is the merit of the Blue Impreza, which shone on the WRC...