Articles...
Oct 14 2008
RENOWNED for his exquisite taste and aesthetic judgment, Loyd Grossman honoured his commitment to deliver Lord Alton’s Roscoe Citizenship lecture on heritage to a packed St George’s Hall, in spite of his shock resignation from chairing National Museums Liverpool’s board of trustees. ...
Oct 13 2008
LIVERPOOL and Everton playing in their old stadia for years to come. The second crossing of the Mersey at Runcorn delayed indefinitely. Unemployment rising, wages depressed and our pension funds under threat....
Oct 13 2008
THE overwhelming growth of Victorian Liverpool led to some extraordinary characters emerging to deal with the huge problems that arose. More people required more health care....
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....
