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Phil Redmond: Jamie Carragher being told to wait is a sad reflection of passing times

SO JAMIE CARRAGHER has been told he will have to wait until the summer to hear whether his contract will be extended. Yet more confirmation that George Harrison was right: All Things Must Pass. But this is not about Carra’s career, more about cultural focus.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Love in short supply amid municipal debate

FROM an earlier era, Mr B remembers the stirring rhetoric with which motions were debated before his parish council’s cemeteries and crematoria committee.Read

Emma Johnson: Bigger was better at the Oscars but Sandra was the night’s golden girl

THIS time last year, in this very column, I lamented the fact that the days of frocky horrors at the Oscars are long gone.Read

Rob Merrick: This macho vision of a strong pound under iron Conservative leadership is offensive

EIGHTEEN years after “Black Wednesday”, it appears the Conservatives have still not learned the lessons of sterling’s humiliating crash that momentous day.Read

Gary Bainbridge: Marketing - the greatest menace of our age

I WENT to Costco on Sunday. Well, I had to. I'd completely run out of 60-litre bottles of olive- style oil, whirlpool baths and big tellies, and where else was I going to get them all in the one shop?Read

David Charters: Discovering the promised land - the new carpet

“DON’T step on the new carpet,” chimed my wife and the melody of her tone rose several octaves on the words “new” and “carpet”. At that juncture, in what has often been a troubled life, my pale and cold-tipped nose had been leading the way into the lounge, followed by my eyes, which blinked twice in bemusement, as I absorbed the full meaning of this instruction.Read

David Higgerson: Actions speak louder than words Mr Cameron

MANDELSON is the man who had to quit the cabinet twice and whose sudden return to the political front bench is perhaps the most spectacular comeback of all time.Read

Laura Davis: I wish I’d passed my driving test

A PAIR of pink Chippendale Y-fronts arrive with the mail, reminding me of the fact that, somewhere between turning 17 and becoming too old to get away with glitter eye shadow, I forgot to learn to drive.Read

Why £750k for view was a price well worth paying

LAST week, you may recall, I said I would address in a bit more detail the “cash for covenant” kerfuffle that seemed to surround word of National Museums Liverpool paying £750,000 to lift a restrictive covenant that would have prohibited the building of the magnificent Museum of Liverpool, now taking shape as part of the 21st-century waterfront.Read

Jane Costello: We deserve our glory – even if it’s only Trivial

I WAS shocked to read that research by the Equality and Human Rights Commission suggests a third of families rely on grandparents for childcare. Shocked, that is, that it isn’t more.Read

Mr Brocklebank: A load of old cobbles, but they’ll be missed if they go from Spellow Place

MR BROCKLEBANK’S peregrinations have often taken him along that most ancient of Liverpool streets, Spellow Place.Read

Emma Johnson: Is it right to airbrush imperfections under the carpet? Perhaps

WHEN, last week, a panel made the claim that magazines should start carrying disclaimers about the use of airbrushing on their photos, it quickly hit the headlines.Read

Will Batchelor: Face to face, not Facebook

PETITIONS are so British. All that anger channelled into something as impotent as a signature on a piece of paper. It will not change a thing, we know, but at least we can claim to have “done our bit”.Read

Rob Merrick: Today’s Tories are still Thatcher’s children

I FEAR I may have been too nasty to the next crop of Conservative MPs heading to Westminster and would like to set the record straight.Read

Will Batchelor: It’s a thin line between soap opera and football

I HAVE a suggestion for the Premier League. Referees should no longer blow a whistle to signal the end of a match. Instead, they should play those dramatic drum beats from Eastenders.Read

David Higgerson column: Cameron and Osborne aren’t listening, just telling

IT WAS a weekend of two snubs – and the one with the lesser publicity was probably the most significant. Less than a day after Wayne Bridge snubbed John Terry at Stamford Bridge, the political chattering classes were talking about another snub: the one served to Cameron by the latest opinion poll.Read

David Charters: Buying a new coat can be a minefield!

“THAT’S a grand looking coat for the money,” I said to the dapper man, whose diplomatic eyes and canny ways with the measuring tape bring a mood of high civility to the shop, which attracts customers of a certain age – trapped somewhere between the early signs of memory loss and the second hip replacement. “I can’t believe the price,” I added, as he glided across the carpet with his smile at full beam.Read

Jane Costello: Fairer sex deserve our glory – even if it’s only Trivial

WHEN playing Trivial Pursuit, it’s important to remember: it’s not the winning that counts, but the rubbing it in.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Her Majesty may not be all that amused

IS SOME little corner of the city lighting department in a permanent state of seasonal festivity, one wonders?Read