" If it stopped banging on about its football teams and it's bands and it's shops and it's attitude, Manchester has something that it can be genuinely, enormously proud of, something that it should shout from the rooftops. Manchester changed the worlds politics ... from vegetarianism to feminism to trade unionism to communism, every upstart notion that ever got ideas above its station, every spotty street fighter of a radical philosophy, was fostered brawling in Manchester's streets, mills, pubs, churches and debating halls."
Stuart Maconie ..