Comment and Opinion - Liverpool Daily Post

Euro battle vital for UK interests Dec 09 2011

MANY people believe we should be grateful that the UK never embraced the euro, given the current financial crisis gripping many of those nations who did.Read

Power to the people . . . at a price Dec 08 2011

DEPUTY Prime Minister Nick Clegg probably thought he was doing Liverpool a favour when he announced a raft of extra powers that could be bestowed on the city in the near future.Read

‘Caring’ hospital will bounce back Dec 07 2011

THOUSANDS of people who have been touched by the compassion and expertise of staff at Alder Hey children’s hospital will be shaking their heads at the report that today claims surgery standards at the West Derby site are not “world-class”.Read

Firms should think outside the box Dec 06 2011

BUSINESSES looking for a way forward during these grim recessionary times could do worse than take a look at what Haydock-based Coral Products has achieved in recent times.Read

Heritage lobby is trying too hard Dec 05 2011

MIGHT it be good or bad news that Unesco’s ever-vigilant troupe of heritage inspectors are currently turning their attention on London, following their recent disapproving visit to scrutinise Liverpool’s future waterfront developments?Read

Stage is set for great step forward Dec 02 2011

MANAGEMENT at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre were unsurprisingly cock-a-hoop yesterday when their first tranche of funding for their £10.6m redevelopment project was confirmed.Read

Compromise key in search for solution Dec 01 2011

THERE have been public sector union leaders saying quietly that they wanted yesterday’s pensions protest Day of Action to be over with, possibly so that the serious business of negotiation could resume.Read

Osborne’s open pledge on Gateway Nov 30 2011

LET’S ignore, for now, the gloom inherent in much of Chancellor George Osborne’s lachrymose Autumn Statement yesterday, redolent as it was with depressing growth forecasts and more austerity than a shelf-full of Dickens tear-jerkers.Read

Talks the best option in pensions row Nov 29 2011

THOUSANDS of protesting public sector workers are expecting to join in tomorrow’s Day of Action intended to highlight their concern over government meddling with their pensions packages.Read

Unite to secure the £3bn green bank Nov 28 2011

LIVERPOOL’S bid to host the Government’s £3bn Green Investment Bank is absolutely the right course of action.Read

Magic formula on private deals elusive Nov 25 2011

TODAY we highlight an interesting contrast between the move to hand Mersey NHS payroll departments over to a private company – and Sefton’s decision to end a £65m deal with Capita Symonds to operate many of their vital services.Read

Festival can sing out for Liverpool Nov 24 2011

WHAT John Lennon began, the Liverpool Sound City music festival now intends to continue, in the best interests of our entire city region.Read

Fresh outrage over Hillsborough Nov 23 2011

IT IS difficult to imagine how shocked the grieving relatives of Hillsborough victims must feel today, in the wake of revelations that tissue samples were taken from their loved ones following the Sheffield stadium tragedy, without their consent or knowledge.Read

Is heritage worth a major sacrifice? Nov 22 2011

WHAT do they want us to do? Thatch some of the skyscrapers, perhaps?Read

Welcome education boost for Edge Lane Nov 21 2011

TODAY we reveal that Edge Lane has emerged as the likely venue for the new University Technical College (UTC) which is to be set up in Liverpool.Read

Triangle will help shape city’s fortunes Nov 18 2011

IT HAS been a long time in coming, but the news today that work is set to resume on the stalled Baltic Triangle development, on a prominent site on one of the key routes into Liverpool city centre, is a promising symbol of the city’s economic resilience.Read

Merseyside suffers mayoral let-down Nov 17 2011

THE much-vaunted prize of a “metro-mayor” covering the entire Liverpool city region appears to have been snatched away from us in another of those perplexing policy fudges that ministers of whatever political hue appear so inexplicably fond of.Read

Urgent need to tighten up air checks Nov 16 2011

HOME Secretary Theresa May is currently fighting for her political life, in the wake of revelations that Border Agency staff were routinely waving through passport control arrivals with barely a glance at their documents.Read

Freight plays a hand in port success Nov 15 2011

LIVERPOOL was built around its port, and, even though the docks have changed beyond recognition over the past generation, the city will always rely on its port for so much that is fundamental to its economic success.Read