British culture can offer few positions more indicative of popular, mainstream acceptance than an afternoon guest slot on BBC Radio 2. Sandwiched between music from the likes of Supertramp and Glen Campbell, it’s a place for...
Read MoreLike at least 50,000 other Liverpudlians, the writer Ian Salmon recently went on an impromptu holiday to Madrid. “It was brilliant,” he says about his trip to the Champions League final where his beloved Liverpool won their...
Read MoreBack in mid-80s Sheffield, I was heading towards A levels, my cranium crammed with a hair-gel-scented hotchpotch of concerns both large and small: reggae, The Stranglers, communism and females galore. But also swirling through...
Read MoreIf you go to art galleries for the silence, you may have to think again before visiting Tate Liverpool’s excellent new show devoted to Fernand Léger. Stepping into a gallery space often feels like being dipped into a...
Read MoreEveryone agrees that saving Liverpool’s Albert Dock was A Good Thing. So good, in fact, that we’re now meant to call it the Royal Albert Dock (as if Liverpool is likely to be impressed by such a blue-blooded appendage). Back in...
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