He is based in a gritty industrial city.
It's been called retail politics, and was once the mainstay in gritty cities.
Most of the campaign headquarters, though, are 20 miles south in the slightly grittier city of Manchester.
But what of the museum's future in a gritty city, one-third of whose population lives below the poverty line?
The most exciting spot is undoubtedly its capital, Belgrade, a gritty, energetic city.
"My interest is the gritty city, the seedy side of life," she added.
Danger had invaded from the gritty city beyond the university's carved stone walls.
There have been tensions at the universities, above all in Casablanca, a gritty industrial city.
Belgrade is a gritty city filled with bad graffiti and dog turds.
It's at bottom just a gritty old city, I admit, but it's an interesting one.