‘Breaking America’, they say, is an indication that you’ve made it.
The Beatles famously did it on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, propelling the loveable likely-lad Liverpudlians that had a UK-hit-making habit into global icons. But it was the turn of another man born in Merseyside to launch his ‘invasion’ this week.
That was, of course, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who made an appearance on Morning Joe, the MSNBC breakfast programme watched by nearly a million Americans every day. And his five minute segment made me realise something about our city.
