Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Public spending in the North falls behind England average despite Government's 'levelling up' policy
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPublic spending in the North has fallen behind the England average despite the Government’s flagship “levelling up” policy, a think tank has now said.
IPPR North – a branch of the Institute for Public Policy Research – said that, despite the Government’s rhetoric, the levelling-up agenda has in many ways been “business as usual”.
Per-person public spending was higher in real terms in northern England in 2019 than the England average, according to the analysis, but by 2021, the latest year of available data, it had fallen behind.
Although public spending has increased in every region of England, the think tank said its research shows that in 2021 total public spending on the North was £16,223 per person - an increase of 17 per cent on 2019, compared with the England average of £16,309 in 2021, which was an increase of 20 per cent. READ MORE With thousands in Greater Manchester living in poverty we warn Sunak and Truss: Don't turn your back on the North That means per-person public spending in the North went from being £246 higher than the England average in 2019, to £86 under the average in 2021.
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