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After admitting the insensitivity
of allowing an editorial to appear in The Spectator accusing
Liverpool of being a self-pitying, over-emoting city, following
that city's display of public grief over the Ken Bigley execution
in Iraq, Boris Johnson is sent off to Liverpool by Michael Howard
to grovel at the feet of any Scouse he can find. Howard, using
a rather appropriate metaphor, says he "cut his political
teeth" in Liverpool (to a sharp, fang-like point, presumably),
reminding us of what fine, special people all Scousers everywhere
are. I couldn't get the image of Harry Enfield's poodle-permed
Scouse characters out of my head.
The Guardian; Tuesday
19/10/04 |
