Liverpool

  • 22 May 2009

    Too soon for green shoots, says MPC member Sentance

    I’ve just been in Liverpool with Monetary Policy Committee member Andrew Sentance. He told me it wasn’t helpful to talk about green shoots at the moment – instead, we should be looking for an indication that things are bottoming out (see the clip below).

  • 16 Apr 2009

    Liverpool: funny, brave, but out on a limb

    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.