---
title: "Manc ❤️‍🔥"
url: "https://loyalty.sarl/en/posts/2025-12-18-manc/"
date: 2025-12-18
tags: ["Status"]
source: "https://t.me/statkarusel/124"
language: en
---

# Manc ❤️‍🔥

This morning I was leafing through The Times. My guilty pleasure.

Apparently Clarkson's been up north.

He's written 20 paragraphs of soppy gushing about Mancunians.

[The article is behind a paywall](https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/jeremy-clarkson-ich-bin-ein-mancunian-britains-berlin-throbs-with-hot-bars-and-fit-bodies-ggjsdp7nn). I asked Perplexity to pull out the main points.

Clarkson's key arguments for why Manchester is Britain's "first" city rather than its "second", as I understood them:

**Architecture and regeneration**

The Victorian warehouses and industrial buildings weren't knocked down but cleverly converted. The city feels alive and modern rather than like a museum.

**Energy and atmosphere**

Manchester feels lively, busy and "real" — unlike London, which he paints as tired and sanitised.

**People and style**

The locals look confident, well turned-out and modern, without London's airs, graces and snobbery.

**Culture and way of life**

Restaurants, bars, waterfronts — the city isn't coasting on momentum but living in the moment. There's a sense of freedom and no stiffness.

**Compared with London**

Back in the capital, Manchester seems to win on every count: atmosphere, drive, a sense of the future.

**A symbol of modern Britain**

In his view, Manchester reflects what Britain is now better than what it used to be.

The bottom line: London is status. Manchester is life. Nobody tell the Gallagher brothers — they'd only argue over which of them said it first. ❣️

## Photos

![Manc ❤️‍🔥](https://loyalty.sarl/img/2025-12-18-%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BA/photo_77@18-12-2025_04-15-41_hu_486a10b7d43f4e03.webp)