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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

Phil Redmond: Surprise surprise

SURPRISES. Are you planning any for Christmas? Or are you hoping for them? Are you planning to hide them under a tree, or just hide under one? And bah humbug to one and all? Read

Phil Redmond: The colour purple

PURPLE. Is this the colour of the moment? Perhaps because it is one of the main colours in the 2008 dressing the city initiative, now starting to appear around Liverpool. Read

Phil Redmond: A second chance

CLEARED. That’s what’s happened to the backlog of ideas inherited from the BMS (Before Mathew Street) Culture Company a few months ago. Read

Phil Redmond: Lost information

DATABASES. Although I said I would touch on these this week, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HRMC) seem to have scooped me by managing to lose discs containing the personal and financial details of around 25m people! Read

Phil Redmond: The speedy route

SPEEDING. Some do it, some don't. Some get caught, some don't. I did. So, while I wish this piece was just about time speeding up as we pass the two- month marker toward the official launch of 2008, unfortunately it isn't and before the rest of my media colleagues out me, I thought I'd better cough to being pulled for speeding the other night. Read

Phil Redmond: The capital of cool

COOL. Some have it. Some don’t. Some want it. Some don’t. Some know they have it. Some don’t. Some think they should have it. Most don’t. The gorilla on the Cadbury’s ad has it. Most don’t. Read

Phil Redmond: Memoirs can wait

NOW. As against then. And the day that marks what would have been Brookside's 25th anniversary inevitably brings to mind those thoughts of what was, what might have been and what is now. Read

Phil Redmond: Look to the future

ELSEWHERE. Where everyone else thinks everyone else lives and nothing else happens. Or, on the other hand, where everything else happens? Read

Phil Redmond: A bit of foresight

PRESCIENCE. Is this the posh way of being able to say I told you so? If it is, then I showed great prescience when writing in April, 2002, about the growing anxieties around teenage binge drinking. And in January, 2004, when I wrote about concerns over the manning of CCTV cameras. What’s been in the news this week? Read

Phil Redmond: Time to get involved

ROLES. As you may imagine, I have had quite a few conversations around this particular topic over the last few weeks, but, in the greater scheme of things, who did, or who didn’t do what, when and where is often a waste of energy that would be better focused on moving forward. Read