I'm that person who's sending voice notes today and not picking up the phone

Pay your tax, you bad United meff

If you are having a difficult day, even if you are not, immediately stop whatever it is you’re doing and watch the ICONIC David Hoyle for Mugler « And I keep in line sausage rolls and herbal cigarettes » youtube.com/shorts/cFvxg...

If you haven’t read what Reform councillors tried to do to Storyhouse in Chester you need to read it. A councillor brought forward a motion to remove funding over a Mini Pride event. It was defeated but arts organisations should not be governed by political flag waving www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There’s a pun in burning, Burnham, gaslight but I’m frankly tired and busy

Two women were taking up a third of a lane gabbing and floating in the pool, the changing room floor was covered in mud, the cats are livid cos the OH is away, my fecking boots SPLIT and I’m on my way to the dentist. The most Tuesday of Tuesdays

Funny the people who transform a city, they die and so few mention it. Rod Holme, the man who drove forward Liverpool ONE for Grosvenor. A force of nature www.placenorthwest.co.uk/tributes-pai...

So many men are so profoundly bad at Communications

Firmly believe if you invest in local authorities and councils, delivering the services that impact on people right up to their front door, you will change the mood. It is all ephemeral if your streets are covered in litter, if the public realm is never improved, if amenities are crumbling

It’s not healthy the amount I hate Gary Neville

You can always measure on a scale of how weird someone is by how interested they are in whether people have kids or not

Tonty’s very quiet

Gets to the heart of it when you think about who those in power take at their word and who they don’t. If they’d taken Virginia Giuffre at her word from day one things would be very different, mostly for her. This utter BS that seeps through this country about proximity to power.

Guys, we’ve got to stop letting chronically insecure human beings find their voice by standing as MPs

I don't know what's happening at Cutthroat Pete's but a) Never has a business been more aptly named b) I would watch a three part documentary on this

I don't know what to do with the fact that Trevor Slattery's back story in Wonder Man is @royalcourtliv.bsky.social. If it was me we'd commission a one man, Willy Russell show featuring Trevor Slattery in full Scouse comedy musical, but this is why PRs don't programme theatre

As it’s LGBTQ+ History Month I thought I’d share some bits from my new book Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains (out in mid March) just to give a flavour of what was going on beyond the privet…

I am in the realm of the unwell and I am livid about it

I‘ve just seen a Scouse girl on TikTok ask if the mortuary technician washes off your makeup and does a proper skincare routine before they bury you so I think that’s probably enough internet for me today

I do like this piece and agree with a lot of it but I fear I’m going to have to dig out my Scouse Exceptionalism essay again www.independent.co.uk/life-style/l...

This includes a £124.4m project at University of Liverpool that would be, I’m going to pretend I understand these words but I don’t have to, "a globally unique national user facility for the direct observation of fundamental dynamic structural and chemical processes". Careers and careers of work

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Arresting journalists and purchasing warehouses for camps the weekend a propaganda film is released about the first family should be far more of a wake up call than it will be

The Arts Council now funds AI projects, which I find baffling tbh www.thestage.co.uk/news/ace-to-...

Need to talk about how much Curtis Jones looks like a lad down County Road who's been told by his ma to get a pint of milk and he's livid about the cold

Arts education is already decimated now PE. Because what need to working class kids have for culture, fitness and sports? It’s been a long commitment to undermine state education and now you have teachers with no memory of what it was before www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The Irish Garda on the Traitors who’s just taking out the fellas who are decent, good at stuff and liked is the most Garda thing (only on Ep 3)

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

How do you create a media literate consumer in an age of AI? Is it checklists, teaching people what AI looks like? Social media companies have proved they’re not going to be good partners. Can’t rely on the market, the industry or the platforms to do that work. So who does it? Govts everyone hates?

I feel like all modern UK politics has done is given dumb people something to have an opinion on all the time

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Hate watching United win Love watching Arsenal lose

LOOK outside and TELL me if it’s raining. Don’t close the curtains and tell me people are arguing about whether it’s raining or not

Any Half Man Half Biscuit fans on here interested in going to their Manchester gig next Friday night? (30th). The people I was going with have dropped out so I’ve got 3 tickets spare now and @twickets.bsky.social isn’t working so I can’t list them there. £30 each (FV + fees). Mobile tickets. #HMHB

Oh my god! No! NO! STOP GIVING MEN HIDDEN CAMERAS!

A lot of talk in arts circles at the moment is about the devolution of arts funding. I wrote about this last summer about how there’s a lack of enthusiasm for independent art scenes that is crushing spirits open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...

So devastated am I about the Andy Robertson news I immediately got a migraine and had to sleep in a dark room for two hours. Pass the smelling salts

When I produced a phone in, if you ever wanted to prompt calls you brought up one of two things; bins and dog poo on the pavements www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Sacred Memory Bank opens today at Kirkby Gallery. It’s on until Friday 27th March. Assemblage. Collage. Word. Mike Badger & Jeff Young. Come ! Details: cultureliverpool.co.uk/events/the-s...

It’s a shame that Glasgow don’t have any artists.

The horse in the hospital knows what he’s doing, guys

Under 16’s social media sounds like great social media. How do I tell Instagram I’m under 16?

IN THE 97TH MINUTE

The new Bradley Cooper film about John Bishop is a hell of a thing. If you are over forty *stares intently* that is going to be a direct hit, my friend

Liverpool just Liverpooling the fuck out of my afternoon

Someone shared this on Reddit and it’s too good. Enter your location to see if the conditions are right for you to dry the washing outside www.dryoutside.com

I do love WATO when there’s a bit of political chaos. I am part of the problem

When wading in shit it might seem there is not a way to have a PR success, but in the words of William Hague I suspect Kemi has won herself another week

This week marks the 51st anniversary that the BBC’s Nationwide broadcast the colossal cock up that was the Kirkby Ski Slope. Built using landfill, on land the council didn’t own, on a water main, almost certainly facing the wrong way youtu.be/WdWJPVREvJ4?...

"If one of the parameters in its creation was something similar to “Done in the style of <specific artist>,” that information must be added to the description." So they are also allowing blatant copying of a specific artist's IP??? 😵‍💫 boooo #Comic-con boooooo!!! 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅