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It’s not politics that make the UK rubbish at Eurovision – it’s the fact our songs are bad: "Our failures aren’t to do with Brexit, bu...

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He’s a poet and the FBI know it: how John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem alarmed the Feds: "After receiving hundreds of thousands of calls, the ...

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Has Covid changed New York City nightlife forever? "Photographer Dina Litovsky was used to taking pictures of rowdy crowds in the chao...

The Coffee Collection:
Ryde, Mann St, Liverpool.

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How We Made Overload: The Guardian interviews Siobhan and Mutya about the recording of the song : "We recorded our vocals on a handheld...

James Bond:
Into the Bondiverse.

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 Film   No Time To Die is by far my favourite of the Bond films starring Daniel Craig and perhaps the Bond I've enjoyed the most since T...

The Coffee Collection:
Wimpy, Princes Pavement, Birkenhead.

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Twenty Years of Feeling Listless:
Twenty One Touch.

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Music   If the pandemic has done anything, it's ruined everyone's sense of timing.  The twentieth anniversary rerelease of the Sugab...

Wordshaker.

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Media Back when I had a decent salary, The Guardian was a daily purchase. Quite often I'd read most of it online the night before, bu...

He's back and it's about T.

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 TV    As you know it's been a difficult few weeks, but today I'm beaming, absolutely beaming.  There are certain pop culture moment...

Four Favourite Doctor Who Television Stories.

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 TV   Due to recent events I haven't much felt like blogging and with my wildly sporadic posting rate anyway, my fingers and brain feel ...

The Coffee Collection: Waitrose, Three Tuns Lane, Formby.

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I'm Such An Idiom.

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Life   Waiting for the moment to put the tea in the oven, I was just idly ego-googling and discovered, thanks to the magic of Google Books, ...

The Coffee Collection:
Daily Dose, Town Green Lane, Aughton.

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"You asked me not to leave, well here I am again" PopJustice on the return of ABBA. Some of you will know how meaningful Peter...

City Links Lives.

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Liverpool Life   Back in 2008, coinciding with Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture, I actually wrote a paid column for a local magazi...

Bye Jodie.

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 TV   Just had a difficult trip into the city centre.  We needed some shopping and I chased around a few shops looking for some lost propert...

This Blog's 20th Birthday.

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  About  It has been twenty years since I began posting here and to celebrate  I asked Annette , who interviewed me for the fifth , tenth a...