RIBA Nomination for Everyman and Central Library

Congratulations are coming thick and fast for Hope Street’s new Everyman. This time, it’s the architect’s turn to take a curtain call, as the building makes the shortlist for the RIBA Regional...

Liverpool Statues - The Good, The Bad and The Clunky

Liverpool is blessed (and cursed) with more statuary than any city outside...

Henry Moore at Williamson, Birkenhead

At the start of the year Birkenhead’s gem of a museum and...

Firesprite Games: Here Come The Robots

Cosmologists tell us that it’s the dust and debris ejected from dying...

Homotopia: Our not-to-miss highlights

Liverpool’s fortunate to have a calendar crammed with red-circle events but, for...

Make some space: Your life might depend on it
By David Lloyd on March 13, 2014
Life is tough. Everybody hurts. So what’s your escape route when it all starts pressing down on you? For an increasing amount of us, mindfulness...
This is why we fight
By David Lloyd on March 12, 2014
Today, as we earn our daily bread, and the Labour councillors who approved Greatie’s move strut around making a mockery of public service - there...
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Liverpool wins Cruise Battle against Southampton
By David Lloyd on March 11, 2014
It’s fantastic news that Liverpool has won its High Court battle against Southampton, and doesn’t have to pay back the £18million it received in European...
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Groundhog Days: The Seven Mistakes Liverpool Never Learns From
By David Lloyd on March 10, 2014
Look at some of the big ticket issues Liverpool’s grappling with today and, chances are, they’re the same ones we were dealing with a century...
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After International Womens Day: The Problem With Women
By Laura Brown on March 10, 2014
We’re poorer, have less of a say in the corridors of power and we’re suffering more than men in the face of austerity cuts. On...
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Spring Forward: 17 Reasons to be Cheerful
By David Lloyd on March 3, 2014
You know us. We’re not the sentimental type. So I can only assume I had a bit of grit in my eye on Saturday night....
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SevenStreets: All Free Today
By David Lloyd on February 27, 2014
First of all, let’s get one thing straight. There’s no such thing as free. Nothing exists outside of its inherent value. There is no perpetual...
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Editing the world. One post at a time.
By David Lloyd on February 25, 2014
I bought the Sunday Times this week, just to see if I’d made the right decision in not buying it (or any of the weekend...
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Spring Loaded: 14 things to do this fortnight
By David Lloyd on February 24, 2014
The sun is out. The sky is blue. There’s quite a lot for you to do. Spring is a-comin. Things are hotting up. Here are...
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In Praise of Liverpool’s Seven Sickest Buildings
By David Lloyd on February 14, 2014
It’s Valentine’s Day, time to show some love for Liverpool’s ugliest buildings? After all, it’s all in the eye of the beholder. Here’s our seven...
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Empty Liverpool: Time for a little joined-up thinking?
By David Lloyd on February 13, 2014
Looks like plans to resurrect the old Littlewoods building on Edge Lane have hit some turbulence. The striking Art Deco-inspired pile had originally been earmarked...
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Holy Statues! Kensington’s saints go marching in…
By David Lloyd on February 12, 2014
One Liverpool family has been quietly populating the world’s churches for the past century - a roll call of angels and Our Lady of Lourdes...
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18 Liverpool Places You’ve Never Been To
By David Lloyd on January 30, 2014
How well do you know this city? Yeah, sure, of course you know it. But we’re all creatures of habit, right? We have our favourite...