With the well-documented explosion in reported Covid cases in London and the SE of England over the past fortnight or so, the media seem to be going haywire over it, yet a few weeks back when say, Merseyside, Gtr Mancs and parts of the Midlands were hotbeds for Covid, there seemed to be nowhere near the same amount of frenzied media coverage.

A similar phenomenon seemed to occur during the recent knife crime epidemic where the bulk of the focus seemed to be on London, whilst almost all of the other major cities were just as hard-hit, but received less media attention nationally.

Don't get me wrong, I"m not having a bash at Londoners per se, but it does seem that the press often single out London and the SE region as the be-all-and-end-all of the UK, when and where other regions and areas also matter.