A SPLENDIFEROUS supplement for Liverpool 08 appeared in The Times on Saturday, complete with deep thoughts from Sir Paul McCartney on the event: "It’s going to be interesting. I think that’s what the Capital of Culture does for cities – it reminds you that there was a history there."
That’s fractionally more interesting than Sir Paul’s comments when quizzed by Jools Holland on his New Year Hootenanny.
Have Liverpool’s greatest living ambassador’s thought processes and pontifications been impaired by his year of heart and marital trouble and strife, just when he’s needed to dazzle the nation with shafts of Scouse wit?