Meet the men who marketed scouse to the masses

‘Shaw was the first to say ‘hold on, the language of a city, this city, is important.’’

Dear readers, Liverpudlians, wackers, and scousers — Have you ever wondered how scouse went from being a stodgy stew to a world-renowned dialect? Turns out this was no accident, but rather the result of two men and an “unrelenting campaign to present scouse as the language of the city.” In today’s edition, Ophira Gottlieb speaks to expert on all things scouse Tony Crowley, to find out just how Frank Shaw and Fritz Spiegl took scouse off the menu and put it in the dictionary. 

First though, the third part of Abi’s Big Help series has caused an enormous stir in local politics. Liverpool’s Liberal Democrat leader Carl Cashman has written an open letter to Labour’s council leader Liam Robinson regarding the piece. In it, Cashman writes that Robinson should seek the resignation of West Derby Muirhead councillor Colette Goulding, after we revealed that trustees of Big Help Project had moved £5.5 million out of the charity and into private for-profit companies mostly owned by Goulding and ex-…