A little sojourn across the water to blow away the cobwebs. The warmth mixed with the low light is uncanny

Love this by my Liverpool Almanac pal Robin - 12 hours in Chicken Bazooka open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...

Well, I’ve just laughed with friends for around six hours and honestly I don’t think you can ask for more than that

"Can I call you Lozza?" "Not if you expect a response"

Dear BBC, Knowsley is not in Liverpool. We’ve got enough problems with having to take on Huyton, thank you very much

Is it childish to boo a footballer? Yes Is it childish to sell your club on the power of its fanbase but get angry when the fanbase reacts in a way that doesn’t depict you "on brand"? Yes Is it childish to encourage a fan response in the media then criticise it when it happens? Again yes

Q4 is called "the golden quarter" for retail and leisure because it’s when the majority of annual earnings are made. Consumer confidence is vital for this. Instead, at the moment high streets need shoppers to feel they can spend this Christmas, the Chancellor is going to tell them it’s too risky

It does feel weird to point out that if you use racism to get attention you are also almost certainly racist

Just made full eye contact with someone dressed as Morpheus getting on the bus

Wild that we spend a lot of time talking about what the history books will record about this political period and it’ll be Andrew. It’ll just be Andrew. The rest will be colour and context.

£26k for a full time producer job that includes strategy, delivery, promotion, communication, programme delivery, community building, content creation and evaluation? metalculture.com/wp-content/u...

Not that they will care, but I think the time has finally come to leave o2. They are so expensive, and even with a SIM only deal, they’re aren’t even offering the same deal I have now and the cost doubles in a year. But mostly it’s cos the coverage is absolutely woeful

lol that people think David Harbour is the only one creating a Stranger Things PR shitshow

This is niche as in it's Liverpool, but the best political representation in a Christmas show is Keddy Sutton @royalcourtliv.bsky.social and "The Mayor with no hair" which, my lawyers inform me, was not at all based on Joe Anderson

Brendan Rodgers has always struck me as that kind of nightmare client who thinks he’s a stone cold genius at managing his own image. Which works if you’re being protected by a publicist, but implodes when they get so pissed off they leave you to it

Waking up, again, to the sound of two white men on the radio arguing about whether it is ok to be made "mad" by the very sight of black and Asian people on TV. 😒

I keep getting a 500 error on the Liverpool Echo www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

We get no sick pay. I had to manage my work around major surgery this year. I’m lucky I work with brilliant people. But we don’t as much support from the state at any part of our careers than employees do

It’s clear that Labour are not going to do anything useful to oppose racism or fascism in the UK. They will be arguing about the paperwork needed while millions are deported. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

My new book about the lighthouses of Wales, including the magnificent South Stack/Ynys Lawd!

I went to the Jorvik Viking Centre today. It is still amazing

Exactly why people with no understanding of local government have no place running it. I’ll bet that money was for cultural or place based activity like removing graffiti or pavements, things that seem pointless to everyone other than residents. But yknow, you voted for flags and you got flags

Well it’s goddamn freezing out there

Guys, do you know how much time it takes to figure out what time any cinema in a five mile radius of your house is going to have a semblance of non-riotous behaviour so you can hear a film where people are speaking and there aren’t just loud bangs? www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

I feel it would be remiss to enter into any kind of bosh discourse without giving due credit to @trashfuture.bsky.social who have already had the definitive conversation on it open.spotify.com/episode/5e4L...

Gosh I miss Terence so much www.theguardian.com/film/gallery...

I’m not saying I had a bad night’s sleep but I brought two swimsuits and no underwear with me to the pool this morning

We’ve normalised getting up before the bus stops at your stop (because bus drivers are tyrants) and it’s incredibly dangerous for older bus users and, as I saw yesterday, kids on stairs

Well this is a gorgeous podcast, and for those who like festive specials this is perfect. BTW if anyone hears any brilliant winter podcasts do share, I am a child of the 80s so I am very partial to a festive special www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I live about 2 miles from Liverpool city centre. My pal lives in Port Sunlight, six miles and across a river away. He gets home in 20 minutes with a service every 15. My bus (every 7-10 mins) takes over an hour because of traffic. I’m considered to live in one of the best connected parts of the city

I think it’s very easy to bitch about Liverpool’s music scene and say it’s not as good as it used to be. The scale of the closure of venues, though, is horrendous. As is the lack of urgency to open new venues. The problem is there isn't any money, but we keep being told it’s fine

A lot of you don’t know what SAG meetings actually do and it shows

It’s all right, gang, a radio presenter who’s decided the biggest threat to women is Trans women is going to explain to us what radicalisation means

@sianysianysiany.bsky.social Hello, I have a freelance writer call-out for your excellent newsletter. Liverpool’s Royal Court has a Stage Write programme that is totally free and works with writers in the region to develop their first full length play liverpoolsroyalcourt.com/stage-write/

Write about music venues while they’re open, instead of writing eulogies when they close

One of the absolute joys of early morning swimming is eavesdropping on all the teenagers conversations when they’ve had their training and are putting off getting ready for school. One of them is a « rat » apparently

The First Wives Club is one of those truly brillant films filled with incredible performances that is often dismissed as fluff because it’s a story about women. Middle aged women at that! Diane Keaton’s journey is the one that makes the film real, that elevates it. Well worth a Sunday watch

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

The Lomax is becoming an AirBnB. Well if that isn’t the definitive epithet of an awful lot of the modern Liverpool I’m not sure what is

Well the BBC north west tonight coverage of the Ricky Hatton funeral has absolutely broken me

Young producers being blamed for an older generation’s decision that everything has to be digital first in journalism (without knowing what that means) while dismantling training schemes that circulated editorial guidelines is not the gotcha they think it is www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The most Trent Reznor thing to compose the best music he’s done in a decade for a movie that’s utter dogshit

I do think a lot about the places I worked when I was 25 (admittedly the BBC and then arts) but an astonishing amount of downtime in between delivery was older members of staff teaching you how you make yourself employable. Workplace downtime is a rare thing now www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

This will go down like a cup of cold sick in communities that have a licensed premises, like a restaurant or bar, on their doorstep. It also wilfully ignores the problem with noise complaints is because developers don’t install proper sound proofing www.gov.uk/government/n...

Laughs in Palestinian

A gamechanger

This is no surprise

I know people like to say the world is too adult for children now, but a generation of kids grew up with their first glimpse of sex the cover of Riders either in the bathroom or on their mother’s bedside table. Jilly Cooper. What a legend

Syed’s column today is also batshit. He badly needs to touch grass