Well, according to Conde Nast it's my home town;

http://tinyurl.co.uk/wpz9


Jim

Now I know why I don't buy the magazine - Durham is far superior

I LOVE Glasgow! We were in the UK in August, and I was glad to be in Glasgow for the third time in 4 years. It seems that many visitors to Scotland give it a miss, though.

Tell us, please...Why Glasgow?

People,shopping, clean air (ok, that one's new) great art, great architecture, open spaces, food, and rain!!

Conde Nast is talking nonsense of course: Liverpool beats Glasgow on practically any dimension you can think of (which is why it now claims to get more foreign tourists every year not just than Glasgow, but than Oxford or Stratford). But Glasgow undoubtedly comes close.

Apart from the things Sheila rightly mentions, Glasgow's got the best immediate access to really great countryside of any major British city and by far the most visitable great museum: unlike the V&A or the BM, you can get round all the Burrell without an attack of museum head - and there's not a dud in the collection.

Great pubs: the beer's not always up to the best English standards, though.

Really, flanneruk? Liverpool? Two British posters recently called Liverpool "minging" and "worse than minging." I even looked up this less than complimentary term. What's the truth about Liverpool?

What's the truth about Liverpool?>>>>>

We're not allowed to say - look at what happened to poor old Boris Johnson.

I'm going to wreck the party and suggest Leeds or Manchester. Both have good night life but Leeds wins hands down on transport (if you don't drive to the centre) the open access to countryside (wedge shaped parks come right into the centre) and museums (including West Yorkshire Sculpture park), the Armorories, the street scene, the shopping, the Kashmiry food etc. A hidden busy gem. Very off the beeten track and not at all world famous

"Minger", "minging" etc are terms used only by sad losers. By definition, such people aren't worth listening to.

Incidentally Boris J. didn't criticise Liverpool. He's a man of far too much intellect and common sense to criticise somewhere he'd never been. What he citicised was the widespread tendency among many Liverpudlians to indulge in mawkish, "I'm a victim" sentimentality.

In which he was 100% right. Unlike his prat of a party boss who sent him up to the world's greatest city to do penance in public.

Damnfool idea. Damnfool boss. But that boss is Welsh, so what else do you expect?

The boss got replaced by someone a lot more sensible. Boris J goes on - his status undiminished by taking a hard line on Scouse whingeing.

I'd have to vote for York.

Or the City of Westminster ;-)

Agree with York. Full of history!

I guess we know what my choice is.

Here are the details;

http://tinyurl.co.uk/z9zx

The article calls Oxford a perennial favorite for culture and architecture.

I certainly love Oxford.

Boris' "global itinery of apology" now encompasses Papua New Guinea.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/pol...cle1431122.ece