Articles...
Aug 19 2008
THEY were never what you would call close friends, but the circumstances of life had drawn them together on many occasions – starting on the school playground....
Aug 12 2008
OUR man from Crosby, Sir Ivor Roberts, Britain’s former ambassador to Italy and now president of Trinity College, Oxford, will visit Liverpool to meet old college members....
Aug 11 2008
HAVING got rid of the children to Scout camps, we practised for empty nest syndrome by watching Carry On Camping on the telly....
Aug 8 2008
CALLS. On telephones. Probably mobiles, as they now outnumber the people in the UK. By about 20m. And about 100m text messages are sent every day!...
Aug 7 2008
GREETINGS from sunny Ibiza. I am, as the black eyes and the blistered feet attest, nearing the end of my annual pilgrimage to the island that worships four four beats and dancing till dawn....
Aug 6 2008
SO, LET’S assume the autumn coup goes ahead and Gordon Brown is forced out of Downing Street. Is there a fresh policy agenda out there for Labour?...
Aug 6 2008
A FRIEND of mine wants an Irish red setter, but as she has long, auburn hair and brown eyes she is worried about conforming to the old adage about people looking like their dogs....
Aug 4 2008
IS MERSEYSIDE old enough for Saga Cruises? It came as a shock to hear that I now qualify myself, just limboing into the minimum age category of 50 (young at heart condition, natch)....
Aug 4 2008
COULD the Conservatives soon be back on Liverpool City Council? This reverie crossed my mind last week when I met two of the last Conservative councillors in the city before The Great Extinction in the early nineties....
Aug 1 2008
POOR old Gordon Brown. He can’t do right for doing wrong. If it’s not his endogenous growth theory going awry, it’s now his dress sense that’s all to pot....
