IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME

Latin, Ancient Greek and other subjects with their focus mainly in the B.C are up for a fresh lot of scholars with the help of writers who have built their careers on the antiquated worlds.
This is down to a new scheme at the University of Liverpool, which is being initiated by top authors Robert Harris […]

MY SCRIBBLE QUIBBLE

Since Liverpool Council backed down over removing Banksy’s giant rat mural on Berry Street, I have noticed more and more of his stencilled handiwork tucked in doorways and adorning formerly blank walls. In his book Wall and Piece the pseudo-anonymous Banksy praises graffiti and argues that stuffy authority figures deem it unworthy of existence because […]

THE TRIUMPH OF APATHY

Last Monday my bank account was blessed with this semester’s portion of my loan and maintenance grant. Normally that’s reason enough to cheer and storm a nearby drinking-hole but somehow this time felt different. Then I realised it was because this is the final payment I will receive from the Student Loans Company. That was […]

HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY

This is the question. You can either pick an arbitrary word from this and pontificate wildly about it or you can read up on it and cry when you realise everyone has already got the books from the library that focus on the subject.
The first paragraph is vital. Not only is it murder to start […]

TOP O’ THE MOANIN’

The idea of having a ‘Britain Day’ to celebrate everything that can be encompassed in the incredibly vague fog of ‘Britishness’ will once again dredge up everybody’s opinions of overblown, rampant patriotism. Something which you’ll probably guess I don’t understand. It all seems so full of forced pride and subtle aggressiveness- as if by not […]

REVIEW - ‘THE COTTAGE’

Horror and comedy may seem like strange bed-fellows but when their relationship works, boy does it work well. Although Scary Movie attempted to weld together the two seemingly incongruous genres, it was little more than jokey spoof and it wasn’t until the British excellence of Shaun of the Dead that humour and terror gelled together […]

SKYLINE’S A SIGN

Capital of Culture is wondrous. It’s a waste of time. Which of these two statements do you agree with? People seem to think that any opinion on the subject must lie at one of these extremes, as if it’s a renaissance or repugnance. What I am most fond of is the way that flocks […]

FAREWELL TO SUPERLAMBANANA

MANCHESTER TO GAIN CUSTODY OF LIVERPOOL’S LITTLE LAMB

What’s big, yellow, about a decade old and makes no sense? Laa-Laa from the Teletubbies? Well yes but I actually meant the Superlambanana which has been the subject of debate recently after it emerged that it could be lassoed and dragged off to Manchester before the year is […]

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS

ODDBALL COMEDY COMES TO DVD
Having already reached the stratospheric levels of being “New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk parody duo”, Flight of the Conchords were soon given their own fantastic TV show, now available on DVD.
The series follows naïve Kiwi musicians Jemaine Clement and Brett McKenzie as they try to come to terms with […]

THE GOOD COLD DAYS

It’s confession time- I love the cold. Ok maybe that was a bit too strong, let’s say I like it. Not in a good kind of way… I hate the cold. What I meant to say was that I respect the cold and the way it has duly arrived on time. In a year that […]

NEVER AD IT SO GOOD

What happened to all the loathsome debt consolidation advertisements? I haven’t seen one for weeks or even months. Come to think of it every advert at the moment seems to be focusing more on flashy physical objects which, strangely enough, could theoretically be given as gifts to people. How very odd!
False naivety aside, my […]

RETURN OF THE MIGHTY BOOSH

User’s guide for the non-informed
As the third series of the Mighty Boosh explodes onto our screens, non-viewers will sadly once again let it pass them by. However, it’s not too late to get into; for those left out in the cold here’s the Skim-Reader’s Guide to the Mighty Boosh.
The series follows the adventures of serious, […]