Articles...
Oct 10 2008
REGURGITATION. Bureaucracies, like birds, seem to feed their young by it. Over my years in television, I must have taken part in over a thousand conferences called to look at the future of the broadcasting....
Oct 8 2008
I AM beginning to feel my life is being swamped by more lists than you find in a Nick Hornby novel – so many, in fact, that I’m soon going to have to write another list to remember them all....
Oct 6 2008
I’M TOLD Freshers Week at Liverpool’s universities has seen the best recruitment figures for the Conservative Associations in years....
Oct 3 2008
ASK. And so you shall receive, the Scriptures are supposed to have said. It didn’t seem to work in our house, though....
Sep 30 2008
WHEN I was falling off the ladder, it would be an exaggeration to say that my whole life flashed before me....
Sep 30 2008
HAVING wisely given extra legal protection to save Dale Street’s historically important, but long-derelict Georgian shop row, surely “heritage champion” Cllr Berni Turner must take centre-stage to inaugurate a new autumnal Liverpool tradition, called “trimming the buddleia”? These showy purple-flowered plants now sprout abundantly from its prized period handmade brickwork....
Sep 29 2008
I WAS chairing a fringe meeting at the Labour conference last week and next to me was Ruth Kelly, the Transport Secretary....
Sep 29 2008
WELL, if you have not been credit crunched yet, the grim financial reaper could soon be coming to you, according to our daily media diet of gloom and doom....
Sep 27 2008
A CLASSIC slice of Aussie pop from 1966 was Friday On Mind, by The Easybeats. A hedonistic paean to breaking free from workplace drudgery and hitting the town with your bird (Sheila, surely? – Sir Les Patterson), the Pub Column occasionally hears its chorus joyously ringing through his own mind after escaping the neon dungeon of Castle Greyskull to celebrate the coming weekend with a beer or three....
Sep 26 2008
IT WAS one of those phrases that struck a chord about 10 years ago and was endlessly repeated. The American writer Bill Bryson, writing about a tour of Britain, found himself in Liverpool, amid a mini-whirlwind of sweet papers, fast -food wrappers and cigarette cartons....
