No words. gofund.me/ad6dc2f3

Rip to a real one theguardian.com/australia-news…

Interesting read on the future of Garston The Post livpost.co.uk/p/gentrificati…

First look at the Glider, the proposed new rapid transport system in Liverpool City Region. Used it the other year in Belfast and have to say I was impressed...

28 August 1207. Liverpool was officially established when King John issued the Steward of West Derby with a charter in the form of Letters Patent, which officially created the new borough, which was originally called “Lurpul”.

As a schoolboy, Derek Hatton once played Gratiano in a production of The Merchant of Venice alongside future Conservative minister Steve Norris as Portia and Bill Kenwright as Shylock

Gary Neville just called Marcus Rashford "a young kid coming through the ranks" #MUNLIV

As Histadrut has moved to organize a general strike tomorrow in Israel, here are some of its historical posters :)

‘This is significant, as Israeli unions are traditionally Right-leaning, with close links to Netanyahu’s Likud party.’ The Israeli Prime Minister is turning friends into enemies, writes David Swift👇 buff.ly/4g5Bb0T

Ive written about cultural stagnation on my Substack. A piece in which I basically out myself as a YIMBY-sympathiser (link in the following tweet in this thread)

Map of the Port of #Liverpool in, I think, the 1950s

Excl: Rishi Sunak ignored a direct plea from Britain's most senior police officers who wrote to him a week before the election urging him to announce the SDS40 early release measure. They warned that failure to act would leave criminals exploiting the prisons crisis and police

The deaths of more hostages in Gaza has sparked widespread protests across Benjamin Netanyahu. 🖊️ David Swift newstatesman.com/international-…

Just learned that Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining conglomerates, starts quarterly earnings calls with a land acknowledgement

Fracking (aka hydraulic stimulation) is enabling enhanced geothermal, a new terawatt scale clean firm energy resource that is being invented and scaled in America (and hopefully will soon be exported around the world) using expertise & a skilled workforce developed in oil & gas.

Daniel Amokachi wasn’t the first black player to play for Everton—Cliff Marshall (who was a Liverpudlian) had played for Everton in the 1970’s—but he was the first black player that Everton had ever signed (I think Im right in saying.) Everton had a rep for racism in the 1980’s.

Famous 72-year-old Catalonian architect Antoni Gaudí is arrested in Barcelona for failing to respond to a police officer in Castilian Spanish, rather than Catalan.

Gaudí’s greatest work, the Sagrada Familia cathedral, remains under construction and is not scheduled to be finished until around 1975.

#OTD 1964. The Herald becomes The Sun newspaper It declares support for Wilson’s Labour: “How could a new and radical newspaper back a party headed by the 14th Earl of Home?” It's defined as a “newspaper with a social conscience, ready to praise or criticise”