The Eurovision Semis: What you missed.

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Music Although I'm not the kind of Eurovision fan who knows the songs back to front before competition week but I do like to watch bot...

Click. Click. Click.

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Art Last night, Liverpool hosted Light Night, the art festival designed to frustrate those of us who can't decide on anything by hosti...

Will McAvoy on Trump.

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Politics It's with some irony that the very people who would be best placed to talk about Trump simply aren't there any more, al...

Elizabeth Day on living out of a suitcase.

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Life Oddly enough this sounds idyllic : "I had no home, no partner, no children. There was no terraced house waiting to be populate...

Elizabeth Wurtzel on Augusta.

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Nature On how adopting an abandoned puppy changed her life : "She was consuming. She wanted to do everything. I was afraid she was go...

My Favourite Film of 1947.

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Music The only David Bowie album I ever owned, or certainly owned on vinyl though I'm pretty certain I don't own any others is h...

All-Purpose Marvel Movie Review.

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Film Funny because it's true . But it's true because they're so good at what they do: "I didn’t know if Up And Coming ...

Yesterday I travelled by steam train.

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Life Yesterday I travelled by steam train. The Steam on the Dock event is taking place this weekend at the Albert Dock as a way of ce...

On the Vowel.

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Grammar Yesterday, The Guardian put out their usual request for subjects for their Review anything column and I offered the following: ...

An Earlier Day.

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Journalism About the only surprise about The New Day closing is that it's happening this quickly. Newspapers and magazines take time t...

"There’s a daisy."

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Film TIME Magazine is reporting that Lisa Klein’s novelistic adaptation of Hamlet ( which I reviewed here ) is going into production with...

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Film The Guardian has an excellent point for point analysis of why Captain America: Civil War is a better film than Bus Dodge . I've ...

My Favourite Film of 1948.

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Film A quick aside. Working through 1001 film list, partly through library dvds, partly through streaming apps, I've been struck by...

We Need To Talk About Steve Rogers (again).

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Film Let's get the obvious out of the way first. Captain America: Civil War is awesome. That cultural barometer Rotten Tomatoes cur...

"If you read me, we're going to attempt time travel."

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Art The biannual press conference announcing the content of the Liverpool Biennial was held yesterday but I couldn't attend due to a w...

Soup Safari #64:
Thai Chicken Soup at British Home Stores.

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Late Lunch. £3.95. British Home Stores, Manchester Arndale Shopping Centre, 57 Market St, Manchester M1 1WN. Phone: 0161 834 1151. ...

The Truth.

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Life Usually the route of my walk to work just bypasses St George's Hall, but I made a special detour so that I could walk across the ...

My Favourite Film of 1949.

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Film James Cooray Smith has been kind enough to write a guest post about my favourite film of 1949: The Third Viewing The first tim...

Friend from the Future.

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TV Bill? Well it is Shakespeare's birthday I suppose. Evening, and there we are, new companion Bill played by Pearl Mackie. Isn...

Shakespeare at the BFI.

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Theatre The BFI now has a YouTube playlist of thirty odd Shakespeare related videos including the above essay about Shakespeare adaptat...