That’s a terribly misleading headline from the BBC.
> Liverpool City Region’s mayor has demanded an apology after an article [int The Telegraph] claimed the city had no **cultural facilities** of “any great significance”.
Whilst the Torygraph is a rag, that is a rather different statement to what the headline states.
The article is not as bad is it seems. It gives great credit to Liverpool’s artistic history and says they’re both great cities but argues that Glasgow has the better cultural venues.
Most importantly it’s written as an intentionally partisan argument for Glasgow to host Eurovision rather than an insult to Liverpool. It’s just a ‘my city is better than your city’ article where they’re competing for something.
It may be unfair, it is a bit rude, but it seems an overreaction to be that upset about it.
This:
> Mayor Steve Rotheram said the comments were “outrageous”, adding: “We want a full retraction.”
Is overkill IMO. Just laugh it off and have a jibe back at them.
Clearly the Telegraph was on holiday when Liverpool was European Capital of Culture in 2008. Or, perhaps, they simply forgot to read their own articles from 2008.
Of course it has culture. It stole it from elsewhere.
Massive spending cuts will no doubt regenerate the cultural landscape.
Piggybacking off the Beatles for sixty odd years isn’t culture.
It’s got plenty of culture, curly haired blokes in tracksuits saying “eee calm down calm down”.
They could take out ‘Liverpool’ and replace with ‘anywhere outside the M25’ for a more accurate headline
This gaslighting on the existence of culture within the country has to stop
Lived there 8 years. This is the reason I left.
Barely any theatres or museums.
Music scene consistently missing big name acts.
90% of boozers based around Carling.
Football being 95% of all conversation.
People on the whole totally stuck in a tiny world with no interest in new things. I got slaughtered at work mentioning I liked cous cous.
Barely any festivals.
There were a good number of decent restaurants though.
I like both cities but Glasgow is massively superior in terms of actual things to do and see
Tracksuits, drug dealing and theft, culture right there
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That’s a terribly misleading headline from the BBC.
> Liverpool City Region’s mayor has demanded an apology after an article [int The Telegraph] claimed the city had no **cultural facilities** of “any great significance”.
Whilst the Torygraph is a rag, that is a rather different statement to what the headline states.
The article is not as bad is it seems. It gives great credit to Liverpool’s artistic history and says they’re both great cities but argues that Glasgow has the better cultural venues.
Most importantly it’s written as an intentionally partisan argument for Glasgow to host Eurovision rather than an insult to Liverpool. It’s just a ‘my city is better than your city’ article where they’re competing for something.
It may be unfair, it is a bit rude, but it seems an overreaction to be that upset about it.
This:
> Mayor Steve Rotheram said the comments were “outrageous”, adding: “We want a full retraction.”
Is overkill IMO. Just laugh it off and have a jibe back at them.
Clearly the Telegraph was on holiday when Liverpool was European Capital of Culture in 2008. Or, perhaps, they simply forgot to read their own articles from 2008.
Of course it has culture. It stole it from elsewhere.
Massive spending cuts will no doubt regenerate the cultural landscape.
Piggybacking off the Beatles for sixty odd years isn’t culture.
It’s got plenty of culture, curly haired blokes in tracksuits saying “eee calm down calm down”.
They could take out ‘Liverpool’ and replace with ‘anywhere outside the M25’ for a more accurate headline
This gaslighting on the existence of culture within the country has to stop
Lived there 8 years. This is the reason I left.
Barely any theatres or museums.
Music scene consistently missing big name acts.
90% of boozers based around Carling.
Football being 95% of all conversation.
People on the whole totally stuck in a tiny world with no interest in new things. I got slaughtered at work mentioning I liked cous cous.
Barely any festivals.
There were a good number of decent restaurants though.
I like both cities but Glasgow is massively superior in terms of actual things to do and see
Tracksuits, drug dealing and theft, culture right there