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Building on success

CONSOLIDATION. Often the boring bit that follows all the excitement.Whether it’s a football league title, a company takeover, tennis final or something more serious such as a battle, once the fighting is over, the need is for consolidation. To make sure that all the hard-won gains are not lost. Read

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

Superlambanana: A firm favourite

SUPERLAMBANANA. If art is meant to stimulate a reaction, then there can be no doubt that the half-fruit half-animal creation of artist Taro Chiezo has certainly ticked that box. Read

Phil Redmond: The spice of life

VARIETY. And what a week this was. From the opening of Garston’s Cultural Republic, Klimt, Yankel Feather at the Liverpool Academy of Arts, Macca, the Irish President’s visit, The Big Hope, The Stand Out Comedy and the Community Foundation Awards – at which the Liverpool Academy of Arts took top prize – to the Biennial’s Transport and Parks Visible Virals strand, at Croxteth Park, it was another week when there was almost too much going on! Read

Phil Redmond: Being more open

OPENNESS. Isn’t it interesting, way from it? The Labour politician Tony Benn often talks, and gives talks, about how he personally records every interview he gives after long ago getting fed up with being misquoted and, more often than not, misrepresented. Read

Phil Redmond: A fitting tribute

ROSCOE. The only son of the city to attract silverware this week. While a banner in the Moscow stadium declared it a Scouse free zone, conveniently overlooking that ex-Blue Rooney is still a Scouser, it seemed somehow fitting that Liverpool picked up a silver medal in Chelsea, of all places. Read

Lifting spirits

Phil Redmond: Lifting spirits

WAITING. How much of our life is spent doing just that? A few weeks ago, I was writing in praise of the art programme at Fazakerley Hospital, not suspecting that this week I would find myself in another of the region’s hospitals with plenty of waiting time in which to examine their artwork. Read

Learning from life

Phil Redmond: Learning from life

CONDITIONING. Something that life does to us all. Good or bad, our life experiences form our conditioning. Read

Phil Redmond: Too much to do

EVENTS. So many are now going on that people are starting to complain that they can’t get to everything. That in itself is a positive event. Read

Phil Redmond: Dealing with leaks

LEAKS. Well, what else would I write about this week? Once again, too much time has been taken up by mischief making and trying to calm people down in the regional and national media over things that are, as they should know, typical everyday events in medialand. Read

Phil Redmond: Living in the city

CITIES. 50% of the planet apparently now lives in them, yet over the Easter break, I spent two weeks in the UK without actually entering one. Read

Phil Redmond: What’s it all about?

ANSWERS. More often than not, they depend on the questions. I’ve been asked to go on one of those BBC TV shows that claims to seek answers to life’s big questions and while it will, no doubt, make interesting "telly", I doubt it will tackle the really big question: what’s it all about anyway? Read

Steps to progress

Phil Redmond: Steps to progress

PROGRESS. Often hard to separate from process. Hi-viz jackets, those luminous yellow jackets or vests now in danger of becoming a fashion accessory, may be indicative of process overpowering progress. Read

Phil Redmond: The global game

PLANS. Whether best laid or not. We all love them, don’t we? Especially other people’s. So we can pick holes in them. Read

Phil Redmond, founder of Mersey Television

EXCLUSIVE: Phil Redmond on how the BBC killed off Grange Hill

Grange Hill creator Phil Redmond, a Daily Post columnist, reveals his feelings about the decision to axe the high school drama Read

Phil Redmond: Causes of crime

EXCHANGES. I’ve had a few more this week. One major, one minor. The minor one was through this very newspaper. Following my column on Evertonians last week, Tony Tighe, of the Everton Collection Charitable Trust, wrote in to point out that the David France Collection had been purchased last December and is being prepared for exhibition in the new Liverpool Museum. Read

Phil Redmond: Come on, you Blues

EVERTONIANS. After the Chelski result last night, they’re probably not in the best of moods for a discussion on culture but, as supporters of one of the UK’s oldest clubs, they should be. Read

Phil Redmond: A great weekend

COVERAGE. You couldn’t buy the sort of media space the city was given last weekend. Well, actually, we did. We did it through our past actions. Our shared heritage. And a great gig. Read

Phil Redmond: It’s easy to judge

JUDGMENTAL. Is this attitude becoming more prevalent? While appreciating this is part of human nature, and none more so than in a Scouser, is it on the increase? Or did I just have too much time over the seasonal break to read the national press? Read