http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/ Read the news and views of our Liverpool Daily Post columnists. en-gb Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/08/26/from-beyond-64375-21611048/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/08/26/from-beyond-64375-21611048/ IN THE flurry of network television programmes about Liverpool during its Capital of Culture year, many of the usual suspects have been already used as presenters. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/08/19/fit-for-a-hero-64375-21561384/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:47:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/08/19/fit-for-a-hero-64375-21561384/ WHEN His Grace, the Duke of Westminster, motors through Abercromby Square past Tom Murphy’s magnificent new Noel Chavasse sculpture to view his Liverpool One investment, will he reconsider Grosvenor’s arrogant dismissal of this work? http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/08/12/terms-of-endearment-64375-21514166/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/08/12/terms-of-endearment-64375-21514166/ OUR man from Crosby, Sir Ivor Roberts, Britain’s former ambassador to Italy and now president of Trinity College, Oxford, will visit Liverpool to meet old college members. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/08/05/double-delight-64375-21470792/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:19:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/08/05/double-delight-64375-21470792/ WHILE used to repeat fixtures in the sports world, they tend to happen less in the world of local politics. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/07/29/a-cultural-city-64375-21427075/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:05:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/07/29/a-cultural-city-64375-21427075/ MR BROCKLEBANK hears that the Royal Opera House is starting a long- term relationship with the biennial Manchester Festival after the successful transfer to London of former Blur frontman Damon Albarn’s Monkey: Journey to the West. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/07/22/the-numbers-game-64375-21380260/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/07/22/the-numbers-game-64375-21380260/ MR BROCKLEBANK is bemused by the rising estimates provided by the media over the numbers of people attending the Tall Ships’ Races event in Liverpool last weekend. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/07/15/don-t-tell-tall-tales-64375-21340060/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/07/15/don-t-tell-tall-tales-64375-21340060/ AFTER suddenly instructing the Royal Navy last week that its warships could not open to the public during the Tall Ships’ Races, due to health and safety issues on Seament Jetty, Liverpool docks owner Peel Ports relented and will allow public access to destroyer HMS Argyll. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/07/08/great-and-the-good-64375-21300850/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/07/08/great-and-the-good-64375-21300850/ MR BROCKLEBANK flushed with pride at the University of Liverpool’s centenary graduand dinner at St George’s Hall, packed with the great, the good and Elvis Costello. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/06/24/designers-at-work-64375-21139114/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/06/24/designers-at-work-64375-21139114/ IS STAGING the Design Show Liverpool at the Contemporary Urban Centre, Greenland Street, an example of post-modern irony? Visitors will doubtless be intrigued by the image of modern Liverpool cleverly juxtaposed with scenes outside of urban dereliction, skips and scaffolding. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/06/17/no-sound-of-music-64375-21085185/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/06/17/no-sound-of-music-64375-21085185/ VEXED Under & Over Mersey Tunnel Sunday walkers demanded if Mr Brocklebank knew whether soured Anglo-Russian diplomatic relations led to Merseytravel banning the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and its maestro, Vasily Petrolko-Strikov, from playing mid-tunnel as Carl Davis and the RLPO had previously. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/06/10/covenant-of-the-ark-64375-21047674/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/06/10/covenant-of-the-ark-64375-21047674/ CARING Royal Navy commanders halted visitors boarding HMS Ark Royal at Liverpool when the queuing time reached two hours on Saturday, thus dashing northern Navy chief Commodore Madgwick’s goal of beating Newcastle’s 6,000 visitor total by a 500 shortfall. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/05/27/life-in-the-bus-lane-64375-20977214/ Mon, 26 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/05/27/life-in-the-bus-lane-64375-20977214/ HOW time flies. It seems only 18 months ago that the new Canning Place bus station was opened for business, yet it is now closed for the tarmac to be replaced. Or, after the success of Tony Robinson’s Time Team TV documentary on Manchester Dock, is it being dug up for a follow-up programme? http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/05/20/mr-brocklebank-ruffled-feathers-64375-20934317/ Mon, 19 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/05/20/mr-brocklebank-ruffled-feathers-64375-20934317/ NATURE watch: ornithologists aerated over dredging Sefton Park lake during the breeding season prompted a Liverpool council spokesperson to smooth ruffled feathers, saying: “This programme of mitigation measures includes relaxing the maintenance regime in those areas of the park outside the contract boundary and providing additional nesting opportunities in neighbouring Greenbank Park.” http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/05/06/food-for-thought-64375-20868479/ Tue, 06 May 2008 11:01:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/05/06/food-for-thought-64375-20868479/ 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. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/04/29/price-of-progress-64375-20833176/ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/04/29/price-of-progress-64375-20833176/ BELEAGUERED Liverpool motorists driving around in ever increasing circles to find that elusive parking space have a new threat to contend with. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/04/22/mr-brocklebank-missed-opportunity-64375-20797572/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/04/22/mr-brocklebank-missed-opportunity-64375-20797572/ 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. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/04/15/mr-brocklebank-off-with-his-head-64375-20767863/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:13:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/04/15/mr-brocklebank-off-with-his-head-64375-20767863/ 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. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/04/08/defending-maidens-64375-20733001/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/04/08/defending-maidens-64375-20733001/ 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. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/03/25/the-not-so-fab-four-64375-20671055/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:21:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/03/25/the-not-so-fab-four-64375-20671055/ 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. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/03/11/mr-brocklebank-is-loyd-pasta-caring-64375-20608704/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:34:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2008/03/11/mr-brocklebank-is-loyd-pasta-caring-64375-20608704/ 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?