Bonus points if you sang in a choir so sing the higher part as your earworm obviously
One of the hangovers of a Catholic education is when you get a hymn as a random earworm and because of how ingrained those god verses were it’s impossible to shift. Do Not Be Afraid is an absolute banger but it needs to leave my brain
Oh hello
Considering Liverpool smelt solely of poppers between 1992 and 2001 if this were true we would have no one alive in their 50s here
Tonty loves a Holy War
Don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist obvs but are any news producers checking that their interviewees talking about their experiences in Dubai aren’t receiving any cash from the UAE?
Similar nose
There’s a woman who comes to our 50m pool, does six laps in just v, slow deliberate backstroke, crashes into everyone, never knows when the wall is coming up, and eyeballs everyone while she’s doing it. Half of my thinks she’s just a cheese dream from reading too much New Yorker fiction
Nooooo he’s the dream figure that’s the whole point. She feels he isn’t real and when he’s crushing human failings become all too apparent. I’ve thought too much about this show
Another drama giving me a chance to play one of my favourite games - is David Morrissey meant to be doing a south Liverpool accent in this?
Did the Board of Peace know what was going to happen in Iran, Tonty, or are you just sending out the messages you’re asked to?
Or TikTok obviously cos it’s all over that
I know everything is awful but my god if you didn’t see Vittorio Angelone call Penny Mourdant a war monger on Channel 4 last night, and then dismiss her guilt trip by saying it hits a bit different when you’re from Belfast, go to 4od now
Very good news for lovers of live music and/or Birkenhead
www.birkenhead.news/future-yard-...
Somewhere I've got a jpeg of the painting Caroline Coon made after she was given Pauline's paints and paintbrushes
If you haven’t put washing out, opened more than three windows and ordered Spring bulbs what are you even doing ☀️
The next Liverpool managerial appointment is far more important than the last - we either become Liverpool again or Spurs
Wouldn't you LOVE to have me on your podcast/radio show/other modern communications thingy? Tales of the Suburbs is out next week, and it would be smashing to get word out as far as possible over the next few months via the medium of chat. Slide into my DMs or www.johngrindrod.co.uk/contact x
I know. But you could use the guys who do cultural distribution and invest in creating viable industries
Plus it plays into their sense of cultural nostalgia, which is swarming social media sites. Of course you'd have to invest in cultural journalists who knew what was happening in a city every day, but you know, give it a go
It would be great for hospitality and culture, especially those struggling to reach that mid gen Z audience that lives in a non London regional city and wants to live an affordable city life. They are getting quality newsletter long reads from Mill publications so you know they want the copy
Hear me out - Reach should bring back evening papers on the street. Commuter footfall is increasing (peaks are now around 5pm), young city centre pops are rising. Focus on the audiences coming back through the city centre from their work to their home. Footfall traffic not train stations
If you say you have to report the news through the lens of your country’s culture but only do it through white voices and not brown ones your news isn’t impartial
If you’re blindly reporting a country’s propaganda without saying there might be a bias in what you’re saying your news isn’t impartial
I think we’re probably done
100% not how democracy currently works but ok, psycho
The entirety of my time in student politics was being told by affluent Labour Students types that I, someone who grew up on a derelict council estate in Corby, simply couldn't understand what the working class wants.
The "working class = racism" assumption is frankly insulting.
Had a horrible stomach bug all weekend that’s clearing up just in time for a busy week and I’ve just bawled to Enye’s Caribbean Blue on a TikTok. All the best
Happy 1st March, known as the official meteorological start of wearing the wrong coat every time you leave the house until May
Holy crap they’ve closed Dubai airport
