Liverpool just cancelled a plan for a cycle lane because people wanted to still be able to park on pavements and drive down a street two way that isn’t wide enough for cars

I was with a rather brilliant artist y'day and we talked abt performing. Social media, he said, especially filming, has meant we are performing all of the time, you now cannot believe anything that is said online, in the same way you don't believe an actor's portrayal reveals their real character

I've done Pride and LGBT+ events in libraries, they've always been lovely & a space for people to meet over books that are often so important in revealing non-heterosoc lives past and present. This news from Essex's Reform council is chilling: www.dunmowbroadcast.co.uk/news/2616114...

My favourite Van Morrison story (apart from the rumours of an offstage charcuterie) is when a woman in the crowd shouted "Van, I love you". And he paused and replied "But you don’t even know me"

So with some pretty fucking extreme racism in the mainstream now in UK politics im sure nothing untoward will come from the fact the EHRC just opened the door to “being uncomfortable with sharing a space with certain people” being a fine reason to segregate people

In good news Vergecast has gone daily, which is great

This the cul-de-sac of the "we never talk about immigration" brigade. It reduces every conversation to one about immigration, determined by those who think immigration is all about race. And the minute the conversation between immigration and race became conflated, it was always going to end here

Sweating hot heat while it’s raining really is the best weather

Liverpool fans, can we just not buy a wedding dress before we have our first date? Can we try and play it cool at least while negotiations are happening?

A week left to catch Love Omar at Theatro Technis in Camden 7 mins from King’s Cross and it’s air conditioned www.theatrotechnis.com/whatson/love...

You will be astonished how many Liverpool fans can now repeat Iraola’s career statistics as though they've been tracking him all along. Astonished I tell you

What the hell are we doing?

I take it everyone at Liverpool watched the Istanbul doco on Netflix last night and realised where we were in the LFC timeline then

Very, very happy to see a brief moment of the man, the broadcasting legend Roger Summerskill in the Istanbul doco on Netflix. Forever Mr Chimp ❤️

Picking up on this... You get to host the relaunched Moviedrome – which movie? What's your pitch for why it's interesting? And where would you want your intro to be filmed?

Oh my god “Wealthy areas like the city centre” At least google some pictures of it in the 1990s

Tonty really is the Boomer Kissinger

I had to work at a factory, then in retail, in the summer and at Christmas, to pay for my degree. And that was before it got insanely expensive

I’m sure there’s a scientific reason but why are Scouse women louder when it’s sunny?

Do you people have ANY idea how much of a nightmare fringe maintenance is in the heat? This is a full time job

An excellent piece by @andrewmueller.bsky.social (largely because I agree with it) on why the vox pop, and I would extend to phone ins, is so entirely meaningless and without merit in their current form monocle.com/culture/vox-...

Tech companies should do more to make the platforms safer Yes, I’m sure once they’re done overthrowing democratic institutions and fostering the far right they’ll get right onto your kids not seeing porn

A Lido about 100m from my front door would be incredible right now

Just four?

Co-sign

I adore the sun but also intense sunlight triggers my migraines. I don’t know what to tell you, life is a frigging rollercoaster

There really does need to be some thought given to what the f&ck we do with all the cars parked in streets making it dangerous to play out. Community car parks to make streets clearer? Can’t imagine any govt giving money for a car based issue but it’s what’s holding a lot of city ideas back

Obsessed with how amateur DAZN sports coverage is. Presenters just spent a solid 45 seconds in conversation with their backs to the camera looking at a screen

It’s unlikely you follow Kiefer Sutherland on Instagram but he’s on a UK tour and does 20 second tourist videos in every place. He really likes churches 👍

I dreamt about a sugar thermometer last night, in case anyone was wondering what your forties is like

It's just obvious that there is no good reason, at all, for the government to legislate what toilets you can go into. This is a thing that civil society was quite capable of working out. We're here because the GCs found civil society didn't share their rabid obsessive hatred so they played the refs.

the Liverpool result here is peerless, simply no notes

I wonder who the squad member was who leaked the Guardiola news immediately on Monday night? I wouldn’t do football PR for a good clock yanno. Spending your whole time checking what a footballer is saying on TikTok? No thanks www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Sunny bank holiday weekend and a surprise new album from The Coral? The cosmic scousers are having an absolute banger

This is bang on btw. The perceived threat that swamps through online life that is just grift, then repackaged by more grifters and presented to politicians as the outrage of the vox populus

And get some fucking therapy, and leave the rest of us the fuck out of it. Fucking wierdos.

⚽️ The World Cup is coming ⚽️ You might boycott, you might want to watch You can also donate to the people fighting the administration and supporting kids being detained by ICE, refugee and immigrant families who need legal support Watch a game, donate a tenner 🔗Links below

The Villa game was just sumptuous last night. The pure joy of it all, the heady screaming and dancing. A lovely thing

My mum found a recipe for soda bread her mother had slotted inside a book today. I’m ridiculously excited to make the bread my grandmother, who I never met, made every day

Chap on the radio is talking about how great it is that he’s handed all his customer service for his small business to AI. I’m sure having no one in your company who understands or knows your audience will work just great 👍

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

Perversely, this is where ageism gets you. If you believe all of society is built to fund older people then you’re not going to put money aside to pay for your own old age. One, because you believe it’ll never happen and Two, because you’ve been told you’ll get bailed out by ageist discourse

This September @royalcourtliv.bsky.social will see the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of Letter to Brezhnev. Today’s Guardian has a How We Made It featuring the lovely Frank Clark www.theguardian.com/culture/seri...

*THIS* is why the Triple Lock on the State Pension is a Good Thing and an investment in stopping an absolute disaster happening in the not-to-distant future

Admittedly this is like trying to have an opinion on two members of a biker gang fighting in a pub car park. It’s fun to watch but you also hope they’d just take each other out

The people destroying Eurovision, the ones using it for their own ends, aren’t the ones boycotting it

All an Arab footballer had to do was be the greatest footballer of his generation to be accepted by fans. But god forbid he has an opinion

My latest: a rant on Eurovision. “United by music”, they say? More like “united by indifference” amirite

This has been such a great conference. There’s so much excellent comedy being made on tv and radio and it’s maddening it’s not talked about as often as bloody news coverage I know this is a pitch to The Stage of « We should be serious about comedy » but hey ho

A new post on Liverpool Almanac by me And a new series having short sharp chats with people in the middle of things going on. Because sometimes little things happen, and you don't know if it's going to become something bigger open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...