Showing posts with label Liverpool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liverpool. Show all posts
Monday, July 20, 2026

Kevin Keegan: The humble superstar of the Seventies

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Embed from Getty Images Kevin Keegan made his debut for Scunthorpe United at the age of 17 and played for them for three seasons in the old ...
Friday, July 03, 2026

Liverpool Lib Dem boss accused of using "sex appeal to build fanbase" in cover shoot

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Today the Liverpool Echo walks off with our Headline of the Day Award. The judges requested several copies of Attitude. #JustSayin
Monday, April 27, 2026

The Joy of Six 1510

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Charlie Young, Carole Cadwalladr and Ian Tucker have discovered "a 'revolving door' that has led to dozens of highly experienc...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

The Joy of Six 1507

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"These settings are not registered – as they should be by law – with Ofsted. They are meant to be temporary, but a recent report by the...
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Monday, April 06, 2026

The Joy of Six 1500

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"They should pivot to the centre-right – announcing a bunch of sensible policies that pitch the Tories as a fiscally and socially conse...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The BBC series The Marksman (1987) is back on YouTube

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Years ago I blogged about The Marksman , a BBC drama that became controversial after the Hungerford Massacre of 1987. Some sources even say...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Carl Cashman: Lib Dems can take control of Liverpool in 2027

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Carl Cashman says be believes Liverpool, which we ran between 1998 and 2010, could be the first core city in the UK to return to Liberal De...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Joy of Six 1364

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"We are not yet a year on from the appalling events in Southport and the violence which followed. That violence was largely based on mi...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Georges I-IV, Boy George, George Harrison and Henry George

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Here's another of my columns for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy .  This time the theme of the issue w...
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Sunday, April 06, 2025

The Joy of Six 1343

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"The UK AI Action Plan quite explicitly encourages building up a greater tolerance for 'scientific and technical risk'. This is...
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

The Joy of Six 1324

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"For so long the US has been the core UK and European ally, the backbone of NATO, the largest contributor to the WHO, and the loudest v...
Friday, January 10, 2025

An interview with Carl Cashman, leader of the Lib Dem group on Liverpool City Council

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Read on Substack Follow the link to Substack to hear Aaron Ellis interviewing Carl Cashman, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Liverpoo...
Friday, September 27, 2024

The Joy of Six 1272

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"The Houses of Parliament are sinking into the Thames. Many dozens of offices were condemned upon their vacation by outgoing MPs. There...
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Monday, September 09, 2024

Who else is in that photograph of John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck as boys?

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This photo has been floating about social media for years, and I tweeted it myself the other day because Jimmy Tarbuck was trending. This le...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

The Joy of Six 1246

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Richard Kemp says the Liberal Democrats must be a party of the major cities as well of the shires and suburbs: "We will only be a trul...
Tuesday, July 09, 2024

Frank Duckworth, co-deviser of the Duckworth Lewis method, lodged with John Lennon and his Aunt Mimi

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Embed from Getty Images Liberal England's Trivial Fact of the Day is taken from the Guardian obituary of the mathematician Frank Duckwor...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

All 19 Ealing Comedies ranked by the Guardian

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Andrew Pulver has ranked all 19 Ealing Comedies for the Guardian. In the process, he notices some films that even I have not seen. But I...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

The Liverpool Overhead Railway

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I'm fascinated by the Liverpool Overhead Railway. When it opened in 1893, it became the world's first electric elevated railway. It ...
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Monday, October 23, 2023

The Joy of Six 1173

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"On New Year’s Day 1953, he signed up to become part of the greatest churn of young football talent English football had yet seen, the ...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023

The Joy of Six 1170

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"Liverpool has a long history of political turbulence. Despite Labour’s current supremacy, the party’s control of the city came late: f...
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