What comes after the Post-Industrial?

A recession travelogue from Larry Elliott:

In two months it will be the 25th anniversary of the start of the year-long miners' strike. Back then anyone driving east from Leeds on the M62 would have passed the Glass Houghton colliery at the Castleford turn-off. Today a huge structure still looms into view, but it is Xscape, an indoor ski slope and leisure complex surrounded by an American-style retail park.

"They said that it would provide jobs for former miners," says Joan Dixon, principal policy officer of the Alliance, a group that campaigns on behalf of Britain's old industrial centres. "It did: one former miner got a job there, or so the story goes."