Love it or loathe it, Liverpool has never failed to capture the public imagination. Home of the Beatles, militant politicians and wildcat strikes, and more latterly the butt of jokes about car crime, the city is the first to admit it has suffered from an image problem.
Now as it campaigns to change perceptions and become the official European Capital of Culture in 2008, it has won support from an unexpected source. The society magazine Tatler devotes 23 pages of its March edition to ‘Livercool’, highlighting the way in which the ‘jewel of the north’, with its redeveloped city centre, new bars and apartments, sense of style and strong spirit, is rapidly becoming the place to be.
