Articles...
Nov 19 2007
AS OUR spectacular culture year looms large on the horizon, Liverpool, almost to order, is embroiled in recriminations and controversy. It reminds me of that saying, why make things easy when you can just as easily make things difficult?...
Nov 12 2007
AS A young journalist, I was once invited to dine at a local factory and I was allowed to use the executive loo....
Oct 22 2007
WASHING cabbage as a child, I would squeal if I spotted a creepy-crawly caterpillar marching across the leaves. I’m not eating that – the cabbage not the insect – I would remonstrate to my mother as we prepared Sunday dinner....
Oct 15 2007
OVER the past few weeks, thousands of people have been intrigued and spellbound as a team of archaeologists uncovered an amazing slice of Liverpool’s maritime legacy....
Oct 15 2007
OVER the past few weeks, thousands of people have been intrigued and spellbound as a team of archaeologists uncovered an amazing slice of Liverpool’s maritime legacy....
Oct 8 2007
FORGET road works, chicanes, bollards, diversions and forests of traffic lights. If you think the Big Dig is bad, wait till the Big Shop arrives in a few months’ time....
Oct 1 2007
SO, AFTER holding our collective breath, the culture people have finally unveiled their programme for 2008....
Sep 24 2007
WHEN people groan about ending up in the media spotlight I have, as a journalist, had the same message: If you don’t do it, we can’t write about it....
Sep 17 2007
THE probe into the mess made of the Mathew Street festival continues – in secret. But we know one thing for certain: the board of the Liverpool Culture Company is in no way to blame....
Sep 10 2007
A TELEVISION presen-ter from the main channel in Toronto called me the other day. She wanted to interview Kathleen Jennings. Ms Jennings has seemingly generated global interest because she was taken to court for putting her feet up on one of Merseyrail’s seats....
