As this is my last blog of 2011, I thought I would take the opportunity of taking a brief look back on the year from Downtown’s perspective and pick out some significant highlights. In Liverpool, we were proud to be chosen as the city council’s private sector partner to open the Liverpo... [More]

The latest reality television programme to hit the screen, and I use the word reality in the loosest sense, is Desperate Scousewives. This follows similar docu-soaps The Only Way is Essex (TOWIE) and Geordie Shore, which were born out of tripe dressed up as entertainment in the shape of Big Brother ... [More]

All the statistics surrounding his announcement earlier this week must have read like an edition of ‘Grim Times’ to George Osborne. Forecasts on growth, down. Public Sector job losses, up. Unemployment, up. Borrowing at the end of this parliament, up. He decided, unsurprisingly, to st... [More]