Liverpool Daily Post Columnists including: Gary Bainbridge, David Charters, Phil Redmond, Laura Davis, Jim Hancock, Mr Brocklebank and more

Mr Brocklebank: ‘Sooty’ Joe sues for sweeping political change Feb 09 2012

SO, in one of the least shocking results in Liverpool politics for as long as anyone can remember, the council approved plans to move to an elected mayor.Read

Gary Bainbridge: Search for the hero Feb 09 2012

IT has been quite cold this week, the sort of cold where one has to ensure one has a blanket, a torch, water and chocolate when one is undertaking a journey. Admittedly, this can lead to strange looks on the bus, but I don’t care because I am warm. And I have a torch.Read

Phil Redmond: Education re-evaluation by the Government sends out the wrong message Feb 09 2012

ON BBC Question Time last week I was acutely aware that a couple of months ago I had written about the format revolving around “members of the public providing pre-selected questions that allow the power brokers to pontificate”.Read

Rob Merrick: Parliament shouldn't get the House of Lords to do their dirty work Feb 03 2012

IT IS fast becoming Westminster’s dirty little secret – the tawdry way that controversial legislation is waved through by MPs, with little or no scrutiny.Read

Will Batchelor: Why Gary Speed's death shows the man in the street the inquest system's weaknesses Feb 03 2012

HAVE you noticed how newspaper columnists often overhear snippets of conversation which conveniently relate to the topic du jour?Read

Will Batchelor: Only idiots invest in Facebook Feb 03 2012

I AM no financial whiz. To me, stocks are for punishing village rascals, shares are what French people sit on and the FTSE is restaurant-based foreplay.Read

David Charters: David attempts a foolish foray into fashion to his wife’s chagrin Feb 03 2012

THE odds were high-stacked against the listless sun peering through the lottery of clouds on that morning of the young year when I hobbled along the sodden road with a limp in my soul.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Griffin? Feb 02 2012

“NOW look here, men,” said Captain Joe Anderson as he inspected the platoon, baton tucked firmly under his elbow. “It’s come to my attention that fascists are gathering in our midst, and there’s no way old Tommy Atkins is going to stand for that!”Read

Gary Bainbridge: The stair that wasn’t there Feb 02 2012

THERE exists somewhere the earliest sound film footage of me. I am about nine years old and I am sawing a thin piece of wood.Read

Phil Redmond: Liverpool Mayor debate kicked into high gear Feb 02 2012

No sooner had Council Leader Joe Anderson thrown not just his hat, but the entire ring into the game, than two more candidates enter the arena: long-standing campaigner Liam Fogerty and local entrepreneur Herbert Howe.Read

Phil Redmond: Identifying the world's ills Jan 27 2012

One of them I alluded to a week or so back when highlighting the fact that the city libraries are to close every Sunday. This is not about whether those cuts are right, wrong, justified, misconceived, inevitable or preventable.Read

David Charters: What dreams may come Jan 27 2012

The question had leapt from our billowing pillows on that early-rise morning – when the lazy angels yawned and the crawling sun met the plump moon in the same widow-black sky; and the first kettles hissed in the blinking lights from the towers of the city across the great river while my old teeth shoogled in their gums to the rhythm of ripe snores.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Forget TFI Friday ... it’s PFI Thursday! Jan 26 2012

LIVERPOOL’S Labour and Co-operative MPs are currently banging the drum on behalf of credit unions as an affordable alternative to those evil illegal loan sharks with their exorbitant interest rates.Read

Gary Bainbridge: How cinemas keep us in the dark Jan 26 2012

I FOUND myself walking past an Odeon cinema, and wondered idly what was on. I looked at the row of signs outside the cinema, all designed to hold publicity posters, and I found it very informative.Read

Laura Davis: There’s no easy solution to the arts funding problem Jan 26 2012

IT’S that time of year again, when arts directors find themselves buried in exactly the sort of paperwork that they went into their jobs to avoid.Read

David Higgerson: Is it time to give Match of the Day host Gary Lineker the red card? Jan 26 2012

DO YOU ever watch a TV programme, particularly a reality TV programme, and find yourself asking: “Why on earth did they take part in this?”Read

David Charters: Memories of my time as a cub reporter Jan 20 2012

It was there that I met a wise old chap. And from the hook on the end of a weighted line, which dangled from a pole, he drooped worms of such succulence that they would arouse saliva in the trout lurking in the still, deep water of the pools off the main gush of the fast streams.Read

Will Batchelor: Health and safety is just a joke – until it gets serious Jan 20 2012

IMAGINE, if you will, a parallel universe in which the cruise liner Costa Concordia had not struck those rocks while allegedly saluting the islanders of Giglio, off the Italian coast.Read

Rob Merrick: Essential law is being dogged by dithering Jan 20 2012

IT WAS after the pesky little terrier sank his teeth into my calf muscle that I pondered the government's miserable failure to do anything about dangerous dogs.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Indifferent? Mayor culpa Jan 19 2012

AFTER very little deliberation, Mr Brocklebank has decided to throw his hat into the ring to become Liverpool's first elected mayor.Read