Taylor on Travel

The Guardian offers a bruising rebuttal by journalist Misha Glenny of shadow home-secretary Chris Grayling's claim that Manchester's Moss Side has come to resemble the west Baltimore depicted in The Wire.

What has this to do with travel? Anyone who heard Glenny speak at the Institute of Travel and Tourism conference in Dubai in June will know Grayling never had a chance - gunned down by rapid, overwhelming fire amid the cheap trash of his opinions. You might enjoy it too - Baltimore on Thames? is here.