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ROB MERRICK LIVERPOOL DAILY POST COLUMNIST

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ANOTHER one-year anniversary is reached today , but with rather less fanfare than the “celebration” of Gordon Brown’s arrival in No.10. Read

Gordon Brown’s happy daze

ONE year on from the June day when he kissed the Queen’s hand and entered No.10, Gordon Brown sipped a celebratory Scotch whisky as he toasted his greatest triumph. Read

PHIL REDMOND - LIVERPOOL DAILY POST COLUMNIST

Cultural gems

JEWELS. Some obvious, some hidden. There are many in the region’s cultural crown. With the half-term reports delivered, some of the more obvious jewels have box offices up between 20-50% with record numbers being recorded by the Maritime Museum and the Tate. Read

Phil Redmond: Plan for the future

STRATEGY. Something generals love, while Napoleon favoured luck. As he discovered, the strategy was to conquer Russia; the tactics were to capture Moscow; the luck was in the weather. Or, as he found out, not. Read

DAVID CHARTERS LIVERPOOL DAILY POST COLUMNIST

David Charters: The world is divided between the examiners and the examined

"WOULD you believe it?" said my wife, who had tucked up her legs on our sofa and was reading the Saturday paper, with her mug of coffee steaming on the side table. Read

David Charters: There is so little time between nursery rhymes and rock and roll

THE soldier stood tall and he stood proud – his sword glistened and his moustache bristled, his legs stout and his shield defiant. Read

LAURA DAVIS - LIVERPOOL DAILY POST COLUMNIST

There are some benefits in simply being average

CALL me pessimistic but I’m not expecting anything interesting to happen today. Read

Rain is a rare experience shared with all of history

IT’S raining again. Great big drops chasing each other down the windowpane, weaving from side to side like five-year-olds in the school sports day sack race. Read

PETER ELSON - LIVERPOOL DAILY POST COLUMNIST

Living a long life can have its own downsides

ONE of the reasons that young people seem to want to grow up so fast is that we are tending to live much longer. Read

A day-trip on the ocean wave had one hack all at sea

I WRITE to you as someone guilty as charged of once sending hundreds of readers and their trusting loved ones on a trip aboard the Scottish paddle steamer Waverley, which became so rough that the old girl had to turn back at Bar. Read

VALERIE HILL - LIVERPOOL DAILY POST COLUMNIST

It should be as plain as the ventilation facility on your visage, old chap

AS A bit of a Jane Austen-wallah, I am probably rather over-tuned to the nuance of speech, but realise I do have to force myself to make concessions to the 19th, 20th and now, heaven forbid, the 21st century. Read

Valerie Hill: More is less when you want to impress

EVERYONE knows that a woman’s place is in the wrong, whether it’s Joan Rivers being hauled off the Loose Women set for using expletives which weren’t deleted, or Ulrika Jonsson for flaunting her latest offspring in the celeb mags. Read

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