Never mind the customs union or the Irish border; we have already been told by the EU that we can no longer submit candidates to become the European capital of culture. We will, from now on, have to rely on our own competition, the UK city of culture. The judges scoured the land looking for somewhere with a vast but underfunded cultural movement to assume the title from 2013, and alighted upon Londonderry, which wasn’t a PC decision at all. When the time came to choose a city to take over the role four years later, competition was fierce. Leicester, which is very like Rome and Paris except on a cellular level, was up against Dundee, Swansea and Graham Norton, who…

Source: The Times May 12, 2018 23:15 UTC