Articles...
May 6 2008
WHEN Liverpool’s best-loved genetically modified sculpture, Superlambanana, resided outside the blessed Sir Trevor Jones’s ships’ chandlers, JP Lamb, his art lover wife Lady Doreen ensured it always had a fresh coat of bright barnacle-resistant egg-yolk yellow paint....
Apr 29 2008
BELEAGUERED Liverpool motorists driving around in ever increasing circles to find that elusive parking space have a new threat to contend with....
Apr 22 2008
WHAT a missed opportunity not to action the idea of putting the four Beatles on each side of Lime Street’s Concourse House empty tower block, which would have become Liverpool’s most photographed object....
Apr 15 2008
THOSE who said 67-year- old Ringo Starr lost his head when, after opening the European Capital of Culture, he told Jonathan Woss that he missed nothing about the city, have been proved right....
Apr 8 2008
A BASTION of fairness is the Grand National’s official starter. This Aintree grandee happily dispensed interviews with the press, except to one particular Fleet Street print which had gleefully printed many Ladies’ Day photographs of Merseyside’s maidens in a fashion obviously intended to expose them to derision and ridicule by southerners. Understandably, his ban did extend to this venerable organ that you, dear readers, are currently perusing....
Mar 25 2008
NEVER one to exacerbate international diplomatic tension, Mr Brocklebank feels impelled to report that Merseyside sources firmly deny that the Swiss government, on behalf of a Zurich group for height- challenged bankers, is demanding that the four gnomes on the facade of the Hard Day’s Night Hotel should be restored to their rightful place in the Basle Cuckoo Clock, William Tell & Holey Cheese Theme Park....
Mar 11 2008
LORDY Loydy: Just what is the real reason for the shock resignation of Loyd Grossman, Britain’s best-loved pasta entrepreneur, from his post as National Museums Liverpool chairman, in what should be the city’s finest year and with the huge new Museum of Liverpool imminent?...
Feb 26 2008
HOW amusing that the celebrated late sculptor Arthur Dooley was commemorated by the Band of the Irish Guards playing at Liverpool Academy....
Feb 12 2008
THE Beatles are not the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s only Merseyside links. Disgusted at Tony Blair’s support for the US war in Iraq, the Maharishi asked followers at his Skelmersdale Transcendental Meditation Centre to beam “peace-loving” thoughts at the UK electorate to overturn the Labour Government....
Feb 5 2008
THE millions (or is it billions?) of tourists expected in our fair city in the coming months will be interested to see statues of native men perched in improbable poses over one of the new hotels....
