Tag Archives: Manchester
How to Save Our Cities
I’m sure you must have seen media coverage of the debate going on about how we can breathe new life into our city centres. The slow and steady decline of the city centre here in Glasgow is sad to see and it is little comfort to know that the same problems are confronting every UK […]
Cherish your Local Library
This is Libraries Week, an opportunity for us to recognise the hugely important role which libraries play in our communities. I’ve lived in various parts of the UK during my life, and joining the local library has always been one of the first things that I’ve done when moving into a new area. A […]
Local Matters
The local elections in England last week didn’t really produce any shocks. As is often the case with local elections, the turnout was disappointingly poor, as low as 17 per cent in some places. The fact that UKIP voters switched back to the Conservatives was no great surprise to anyone. The Labour Party however ought […]
Prolific North
It’s all too easy to think that the media, PR and marketing industries in the UK are centred on London and that nothing of much interest or significance ever happens outside of the M25. However, anyone who has that mindset is mistaken. Earlier this week I was one of around 3,800 delegates who attended the […]
An Important Year for the Public Sector
Last week I had a look at how the media scene might look in 2017, now I’d like to look at how the New Year will impact on the public sector. After all the dramas of 2016, it would be easy to think that 2017 might be quite dull, but I doubt that very much. […]
Libraries Matter
Earlier this week the BBC ran a series of stories on the state of the nation’s libraries. Based on a the results of a series of FOI requests, the BBC found that over 340 libraries have closed since 2010, resulting in almost 8,000 job losses. My own local authority, Sefton, has closed half of its […]
Can The Apprentices save the Northern Powerhouse?
There was an interesting interview in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week with Nick Hewer, the former PR agency boss who is now best known for his stint as Sir Alan Sugar’s sidekick on The Apprentice. In the interview Hewer was sceptical about George Osborne’s plans for a Northern Powerhouse, describing Salford (where Hewer records […]
City to City
I find it interesting that while the rivalries between some of our great cities (Edinburgh & Glasgow, Liverpool & Manchester, etc.) never seem to change, our perceptions of these cities, and of the differences between them, do seem to have altered over the years. Having been born and bred in Glasgow, I was brought up […]
The Echo rings the changes
There is a joke on Merseyside which says that if you dial 999 the operator will say “Emergency, Which service do you require, Police, Ambulance, Echo news desk?” Like most good jokes, it has a basis is reality. If you flick through the Liverpool Echo, you can’t help but be struck by the fact that […]
City Regions Matter
Last night I attended a fascinating lecture at the University of Liverpool by Professor Michael Parkinson. His talk was titled City Regions in the UK; Policies, Performance and Prospects, a subject which seems highly topical at the moment. Professor Parkinson looked at the contrasting fortunes of the UK’s city regions over the last two decades, […]
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