'The cleverest man in England' was from Liverpool. Did it hold him back?

'The cleverest man in England' was from Liverpool. Did it hold him back?

They used to say that if you remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there. For the following generation, that was the 1990s. The drugs weren’t as psychedelic, the pop bands less ambitious, the feminist wave more conciliatory and the 'revolution' closer to a shuffling of HR personnel. But the heady atmosphere of Britpop, Blair and 'Cool Britannia' sweeping away Conservatives and the rigid class system was surely as intoxicating as any LSD trip or…