Volume 1 Issue 1 - February 2006

by Stephen Gascoigne

During my medical training in Liverpool, we attended a debating competition in a prestigious centre of learning and culture - Oxford University. We were seen as being the poor relations from the North of England. Liverpool had, and still has, a reputation for humour and certain irreverence. The debating team from Liverpool proceeded to bring the house down with their storytelling and debating skills. At the end of the competition, a formal and rather stuffy professor began by saying, ' Of course, anyone can be funny....' to be met with a rapid riposte from the back, 'Well, go on then!'.