The Guardian reports that Hull is the crappest town in Britain, in a new book from The Idler magazine.

The book is the result of the Idler’s Crap Towns website, which features a number of vitriolic attacks on various towns and cities, and not just the ones that spring to mind, there are attacks on the likes of Islington as well.

Cambridge, alas, does not make the list though I think it should. There’s the creepy gothic architecture that permeates the city; the shitness of the local nightlife (Monday nights at Fez notwithstanding); the expensive pubs; the billions of tourists that get in the way all the fucking time; the ugly, identical-looking locals (Heavily gelled hair and Ben Sherman or Hackett for him, orange suntan and a fat arse in nasty white trousers for her) who are especially unfriendly at closing time; the middle-class sk8r punk kids in HOAX T-shirts that mill around the town centre any time of day; the reek of piss in Market Square; the fact that every other shop is a branch of Next; the hooray-Henry toff students who got in because Daddy paid £50 an hour for personal coaching and tuition; the idiot cyclists who cheerfully ignore the Highway Code, especially the subtle distinction between pavement and road…the list goes on. And don’t get me started on the Regal…

Fuck, what am I doing living here?

It could be worse, though. I could be living in Sutton :-)