I went to see the Le Corbusier exhibition in Liverpool yesterday. It was pretty good, although I found the layout a bit confusing - I prefer a chronological approach rather than a thematic one if it’s not a subject I’m especially familiar with. I’d also have liked a bit more of a focus on the [...]

Later this week, a supposedly unforgettable, magical, vast, breathtaking and captivating cultural event is coming to Liverpool. It’s called La Machine and it’s a large-scale art project created by French artist François Delarozière.
I use the word “supposedly” because nobody can truly know whether it will live up to the various adjectives used above (which, like [...]

The Policy Exchange, a “centre right” think tank, has suggested in a new report that people in Liverpool and some other places in the north should abandon their cities, which are “beyond revival”, and move down south.
While that is undoubtedly a daft suggestion aimed at stirring up controversy, the fact remains that Liverpool is a [...]

To Liverpool, where today’s Daily Post seems to have missed a football story of some minor European importance.

EVERTON youngsters are celebrating a fine tournament success after winning the under-13s girls Premier League Schools Tournament.
Represented by a six-a-side Broughton Hall High School from West Derby, Everton overcame Liverpool 2-0 in the final at the Madjeski Stadium.
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Someone predicted on a forum on the Liverpool Echo website at 10.28am yesterday that Arsenal would draw Liverpool, Man Utd would get Roma and Chelsea would play Fenerbahce, leaving Barcelona v Schalke in the quarter finals of the Champions League. The idea of fixing a live cup draw seems initially ridiculous until you consider the [...]

This is a real beauty. Somehow, the Liverpool Daily Post has got hold of an e-mail from Liverpool council leader Warren Bradley to council chief executive Colin Hilton demanding that the chief executive of the Liverpool Culture Company, Jason Harborow, should resign over the fiasco involving this year’s Mathew Street festival. Gleefully, they have printed [...]

Simon O’Brien, ex-Brookside actor and sometime TV presenter, quit his job as the breakfast DJ on BBC Radio Merseyside earlier this week after using the phrase “fuck the government”. The comment related to an ongoing battle over housing demolition on Liverpool’s Edge Lane and was made off-air (shades of Big Ron Atkinson here) but was [...]