Tuesday, September 14, 2004
An Open Letter to Dan Walters
Dear Dan,
I hope you are well, I am fine. Just thought I’d drop you a quick line. Did you see the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday? They had some tiresome concessions to the Celtic fringe by satellite-linking concerts and alternating between them. Anyway, they had one in Scotland, one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. And one in Manchester! For some reason. So you can pipe down with your London bias nonsense, there is an over exposure of Manchester in the media, it’s not a separate country, no matter how much we’d like to jettison it. And it was the only place in these British Isles where the crowd needed umbrellas. So there you have it, conclusive proof: Manchester has too prominent a place in national life and it’s always raining.
Fraternally,
Alistair
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Dear Dan,
I hope you are well, I am fine. Just thought I’d drop you a quick line. Did you see the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday? They had some tiresome concessions to the Celtic fringe by satellite-linking concerts and alternating between them. Anyway, they had one in Scotland, one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. And one in Manchester! For some reason. So you can pipe down with your London bias nonsense, there is an over exposure of Manchester in the media, it’s not a separate country, no matter how much we’d like to jettison it. And it was the only place in these British Isles where the crowd needed umbrellas. So there you have it, conclusive proof: Manchester has too prominent a place in national life and it’s always raining.
Fraternally,
Alistair
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