The Sun has open a Liverpool Twitter account. Not such a big deal? Maybe to the people of a city accused of the most hideous lies imaginable by the paper after Hillsborough.
Seven Streets
Someone recently told me that to understand the future, you had to understand the past. How did Liverpool get where it is today? What forces and trends and people formed the city we now live in? What’s gone on on the streets, above and below?
Liverpool Echo’s Hillsborough exhibition
The Liverpool Echo and Daily Post are staging a joint exhibition in the foyer of the Echo building on Old Hall Street, consisting of 96 pages from the two papers in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster.
From the archives: Che interviews Alexei Sayle for Black+White
Here’s one of the highlights of those old Black+White magazines; Che’s gonzo, strangely but aptly troubled interview with Alexei Sayle.
The Best of Liverpool 2009
I’ve asked a group of people well placed in media, music, arts and other general culture vultures to venture their high- and lowlights of Liverpool in 2009.
40 years of lies – don't buy the Sun
There’s a tricky duality as a journalist to slating other journalists and newspapers.
As a human being I despise The Sun for its lies, prejudice, snideness, cynical politics, nepotism and the way it glories in being a kind of dunce’s comic.
Liverpool's big breasts
Falling squarely into the ‘nice work if you can get it’ line of research, or the ‘headline-grabbing waste of everyone’s time’ line of research if you prefer is the news that Liverpool has the biggest breasts in the country.
Livtwest
I spend a fair amount of time on Twitter, for reasons I’ve explained elsewhere. Simply put it’s an amazing tool for connecting with interesting people, and it’s invaluable from a professional point-of-view, a hotline straight through to valuable marketers, PRs and journalists.
So, once in a while, I turn up to Twitter meet-ups to put faces to names, names to handles and handles to faces. That’s a lot of information to juggle in your head while making small-talk with someone you’ve never met before, but I like a challenge.
Images of Michael Shields release
Dave Evans has sent over some images of Michael Shields’ release, a story that look sure to dominate headlines for some time to come.
The local media has waged a vociferous campaign to have Shields freed, and local celebrities, clergy and footballers have also rallied to the cause.
Shields was freed following a Royal Pardon that was issued by Justice Secretary Jack Straw after receiving ‘fresh evidence which the Bulgarian court did not consider’ that indicated that Shields was ‘morally and technically innocent’ of the attack on a Bulgarian national.
Gerrard prosecutor speaks, but still no clue as to what music Stevie was seeking
Stevie G’s entirely proper acquittal last week for delivering up to three uppercuts to a DJ in what was termed ‘pre-emptive self-defence’ – a term that could have been coined by George Bush – was not due to a friendly local jury, according to the prosecutor in the case.
In an article in the Daily Post’s legal section, Ben Schofield writes that Exchange Chambers was surprised that Gerrard chose not to employ their services, but lavished a reported £250K on London QC John Kelsey-Fry rather than the eventual prosecutor David Turner.
Turner, a former cabaret director of the Cambridge footlights, is described in the article as ‘charismatic raconteur’ and thought the evidence that Gerrard acted in self-defence in the Southport punch-up ‘strong’.