Blog posts tagged "Andy Burnham"

June 5, 2009 11:15 am No Comments

To answer my own initial question: Purnell has broken from the pack. He has done what David Miliband, conceivably Andy Burnham, and maybe John Hutton (of whom more in a moment), might have done and must have been thinking of doing. Purnell has plunged a knife that has been waiting for such an exercise for [...]

April 16, 2009 1:42 pm No Comments

I was fortunate to attend Liverpool University in the late 1960s. It wasn’t just the experience of living in a Northern industrial city, it was the insight into scouse culture that it provided. Hence the event remembering the 96 victims of the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 20 years ago had a poignancy for me.

April 15, 2009 4:35 pm No Comments

Amazing scenes from Anfield, the home of Liverpool FC today, on the 20th anniversary of the disaster at Hillsborough. A total of 96 people died as the match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was getting under in Sheffield way back in April 1989.