i'm with rosie millard, who is chair of hull — the uk city of culture 2017.ction panel for the european city of culture. i presume it was. you mean capital of culture. because it has gone now. you were going to choose one of the five cities. look at the care that has gone into it. 0ur place, that was belfast. i am puzzle as to how it got this far, we voted to leave some time ago, how could it have got this far would us realising? it must have been on their risk register, they must have had this anxiety this could happen, but never believe it would happen because there is precedent, you know, cities of one culture, media and sport, from countries which are not in the eu, like norway, capital of culture, there is even i think it is prague, yes, was the capital of culture before the czech republic was in the eu, so there is precedent. and 2023. they put a lot of money into the bid. it is preallocated as britain's year. and i may say that britain was the country that really brought the capital of culture into being, because before glasgow won it in 1990, the capi