Articles...
Jul 18 2008
IT IS with great pleasure that I will be hosting the tenth annual Pride of Britain Awards in October. As you may know, it is an incredibly uplifting occasion where HRH Prince Charles and the Prime Minister join a star-studded audience to honour the nation’s unsung heroes....
Jul 17 2008
I WAS very interested to see Mr Brocklebank’s item (DP, July 15) about the state of Edge Lane, which has depressed me also for many, many months....
Jul 16 2008
THE letter from Mr Beilin (Daily Post, July 14), seems somewhat disingenuous. The purpose of a “news” paper is to report the news, not to filter out any bad news in the development sector at the risk of upsetting certain financial organisations. I want to read what is going on in the city, not a lily-livered version written to protect me from bad news....
Jul 15 2008
WITHIN the space of a few days, I have heard many people on Radio 4 state that Britain is a “secular democracy”. This is not the case....
Jul 14 2008
MY WIFE and I decided to spend a long weekend in Liverpool this year and celebrate the culture. We’ve both worked briefly in the city, at the Everyman and the Playhouse, but, as soft southerners, a trip north is a bit of an adventure, frankly. People mocked: “A holiday in Liverpool? Contradiction in terms.”...
Jul 10 2008
FURTHER to comments on the letter by Bill Henderson about the legacy of the Capital of Culture, I have to agree that, once the hot air has evaporated (and even the excessive amount that Liverpool can produce doesn’t last forever), there won’t be much to savour....
Jul 9 2008
AMID all the cries for tougher sentences for knife and gun crime, we should all consider a few points....
Jul 8 2008
TODAY the nation is on the brink of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. Food prices are rocketing, petrol, gas and electricity prices are rising at record levels, and mortgage payments are increasing as the value of homes plummets....
Jul 7 2008
I AM a director of Merseyside Special Investment Fund and Liverpool Chamber of Commerce is one of the Company's guarantors. The Chamber has always supported MSIF as a vital source of locally-intelligent investment capital for the city region....
Jul 4 2008
IT WAS with some amusement that I read J Knott’s anti-Christian nonsense (Letters, July 2). He reiterates the comment of PR Jones that Christians “hold beliefs without adequate reason to do so”. This, of course, is ridiculous....
