"Liverpool, like no other city, concentrated simultaneously on all the core functions of the global cotton trade. Its …"

"I first joined the Labour party in Liverpool because of what I saw of the poverty, the unemployment, and the endless …"

"The overall range of trade goods which left the European ports of , , and Liverpool was determined almost exclusively…"

"Manchester’s got everything except a beach."

"If it stopped banging on about its football teams and its bands and its shops and its attitude, Manchester has someth…"

"We like annoying people. It’s a Manchester thing. It’s a trait. We just like pissing people off."

"I had no idea that any of us could play as well as we did on Morning Glory. I hoped we could, but I didn’t know. The …"

"Manchester has pure life packed into its bare brick warehouses, ironically sunny-themed trams, and even its old railw…"

"Factory Records were not just made in the north. They were entirely, fundamentally, immanently of the north. They sou…"

"And on the sixth day God created Manchester"