New Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson spotted on Hope Street

July 6, 2010 Robin Brown 1 Comment

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The Culture Blog’s paparazzi desk has sent this image of new Liverpool Football Club Roy Hodgson taking a stroll down Hope Street.

Abandon all Hope – another fucking Tesco

August 25, 2009 Robin Brown 1 Comment

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You know, Tesco isn’t all bad. Well, OK it is – but a new Tesco store isn’t the end of the world.

However, a new Tesco store on Hope Street – slap bang in the middle of the ‘cultural quarter’, connecting two astonishing cathedrals, host to the iconic Philharmonic Hall, Everyman Theatre and Philharmonic pub and blessed with its own street festival – is a bloody awful prospect.

Announced at a time when the city council has somehow allowed a developer to destroy Josephine Butler House, the prospect of another sodding Tesco store blighting the otherwise-stunning thoroughfare is a depressing one.