Manchester Arndale

And her steps are getting better.

She'll be, what does she say? Something about she'll be, you know, running through the Arndale Centre before you know it.

And Lisa comes downstairs and we get this third mention of a Batman thing for the Connor Swains.

Right.

Any terrorism tab, anything above the excess, the government picked up.

So Manchester Arndale has been bombed by the IRA.

Therefore, it's a terrorism.

Therefore, the big companies that own the Arndale, you can work that out for yourself, I won't mention them at the minute, they were claiming, obviously, poori.

We used to have three, one of which I launched, which was the only one that's ever failed straight away, proud moment, is Billyfields in Manchester, which was obviously too soon for the site.

But we used to have... several in the city centre one that was in Selfridges then it went into the Arndale and now they're just they're not here so you know Manchester's a big busy city full of plenty of restaurant options is that you know why is that and will you bring us a Sushi Co instead?

There is one in Manchester.

Where's the one in Manchester?

I'm not comfortable in that space, right? Now I learnt that as a teenager.

I learnt that in the Arndale, Deansgate, and things like that.

But it was so awkward.

And then I learned a more powerful form of evangelism to me.

were on their way into town that day and hadn't set off a bit late and hadn't got there.

So that was extremely close to home and the Arndale Centre and all that.

I'm actually helping a publication at the moment to look into what happened in Manchester because it's hard to believe it's almost 30 years ago now.

But I think that was the biggest bomb ever exploded during the Troubles.

Any terrorism tab, anything above the excess, the government picked up.

So Manchester Arndale has been bombed by the IRA.

Therefore, it's a terrorism.

Therefore, the big companies that own the Arndale, you can work that out for yourself.

So I went there and I stuffed the stuff I got from there into the boots bag, which was by now pretty sodden.

But while I was in M&S, I was coming up and I was going to go from the basement floor to the first floor so I could use the tunnel into the Arndale and go home the dry way.

I got up to the first floor and then the lift charged down immediately like the Titan submersible.

Back down to the

Yeah.

So then I waited around for like 10, 15 minutes and then got rocketed up to the top of M&S to where the lift machinery is so they could get on top of the lift and like fiddle around with it and stuff.

So then I got out of there and then I finally made it to the tunnel into the Arndale.

So great, no problem.

But there's loads of things.

There's something launching this weekend at the Manchester Arndale, which is called Pose with Pride, which is really exciting, where there's people can have that feeling of being a model and excitement and stuff like that.

There's loads happening at home, loads happening at Aviva Studios, loads happening, well, it's got Scene Festival happening.

So there's loads happening around the city and loads of little smaller things.

Our event is the four-day event, but there's loads happening in the run-up that we're celebrating as well and we're talking about as well, if you know what I mean.

So there's loads of these amazing different companies that have come together and said, we want to put stuff on.

So the Arndale, for instance, that's happening there, that's all come from Manchester Arndale and they've wanted to put that on, which is fantastic.

Yeah.

I blagged my mum and dad in 1990, jumped on the bus to Manchester city center, went to Woolworths or WH Smith.

It was Woolworths in the Arndale in Manchester.

And I bought it.

salt and pepper.

These weapons have been tested so thoroughly in Ukraine and everyone thinks they're not going to be used here.

So that kind of gung-ho complacency about letting go of our strategic and military and political strength that came from being part of the European Union will last for 15 seconds when the children are melted in the Arndale Centre in Manchester by these drones that have had five years preparation to be advertised on the nine o'clock news in Moscow and here and it should have been stopped and we've we spent years and years contemplating our naval talking about migration which is totally unimportant as a as a issue and we spent years and years sort of promoting this war in Ukraine where it just should have been stopped.

Not an easy thing to do.

We had very bad leadership and very bad leadership leads to world wars, I'm afraid.