Tag Archives: Liverpool
The truth
It is difficult to imagine the emotions that the families of the 96 victims of the Hillsborough Disaster must be feeling today, at the news that all government papers – including uncensored cabinet meeting minutes – are to be made … Continue reading
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‘A journey of decades’ – Matt Ford and Love Mode present The Art Show
One of the hardest things about being so far away is missing out on events like the current exhibition of art work by talented photographer Matt Ford. So I am indebted to Samantha Elmes, student at Liverpool John Moores University, for … Continue reading
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Obon festivities
Often in class I find I am learning as much as the students. While they pick up the essentials of English grammar and usage, along with certain vignettes about British life, I am gaining too. Not merely an insight into … Continue reading
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Well Red magazine Issue 8
What a year it has been for Liverpool Football Club. Ditching two managers, one sometimes loved, one universally loathed. Jettisoning two feckless owners with the assistance of unlikely heroes in the form of investment bankers. In the process beating threats … Continue reading
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Jishin-yoi: the feeling of earthquake drunkenness
It usually starts with a jolt. If walking or standing, I notice the ground beneath my feet start to move, or if sitting I feel it along my spine. I brace myself for what is coming, look up at the … Continue reading
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Hillsborough: another year passes
I was a little kid in 1989. Smaller than some of the ones I now teach, a bit of a geek, perhaps too fond of my Kate Bush cassettes, spending school holidays watching Star Wars on video over and over … Continue reading
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Let’s push things forward
So if, as Paul Mason observed last month, it really is kicking off everywhere could the UK be about to follow suit? Anger at the proposed round of cuts appears to be building to an extent where even that famous … Continue reading
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Indirect action
Updates to ten minutes hate have been few and far between lately, for which I am sorry, although in my defence, the situation is as yet nowhere near as bad as it was this time last year when I was … Continue reading
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