@lancekthompson

Thug with a pen. Boxing ex-fan. Likes books. Bad Catholic. Writes for @liverpoolpost.

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For The Post, I wrote about nighttime safety, the rise of volunteer patrol groups and whether they have a political agenda. livpost.co.uk/the-liverpool-…

The Liverpool Street Guardians: concerned citizens, or a ‘fascist organisation’?

On nighttime safety, Operation Halo and volunteer patrol groups

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For The Post, @abi_whist and I travelled the length and breadth of Merseyside to find the tastiest sweet treats and sourdough loaves across Merseyside. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it... livpost.co.uk/the-bakery-ran…

The bakery rankings Merseyside didn’t ask for

The ‘pastry renaissance’ has not escaped The Post’s notice

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Just ordered some proper scran from Calm Ya Baps.
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Jonny Blackburn and Ethan Penny *are* The Post right now: the liquid-metal reporters to my clanking, clumsy T-800. This is Jonny's third piece just this week and it's a great read! 25 comments already; let us know what you think. livpost.co.uk/can-the-beatle…

Can The Beatles' tower revive Liverpool’s 'struggling' music scene?

'It won’t be a silver bullet'

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"he is the only one with a strong hand on the tiller on fairly stormy waters" mate what the fuck are you on about
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Poor Crabbish isn't looking too healthy. But then, neither did the food. livpost.co.uk/crabbish-my-af…
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I have always cherished Danny Dyer's response to this film's critical drubbing: "Well, it can't all be fackin' Fellini, can it?"
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I once chinned (beaked?) a seagull that dive-bombed me in West Kirby. Twice I've had Greggs nicked by gulls on Exchange Flags. One shat on me in Whitechapel. I saw another eating a rabbit on Bixteth Street. So I'm quite envious Jonny got to do this story. livpost.co.uk/whats-behind-l…

What’s behind Liverpool’s ‘XL gully’ problem?

Seagulls in town will get 'bolder and bolder' if nothing changes

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We need to educate Americans about Britain's "sausage renaissance" and heroes like Bill O'Hagan, who helped change watery "bangers" into proper food.
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@SandyofCthulhuOct 20
I was mocking the awful British sausage to her face when my English friend said she’d prove me wrong. Next morning she cooked a Full English for us (me, her husband, and daughter). The sausage was great. She said it was Cumberland. Still not okay with their baked beans.
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This is risible, especially from a broadsheet newspaper: none of these are obscure films. And Tokyo Story came out in 1953, not 1972. Ozu died in '63, for fuck's sake.
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Rare photo of Roger Scruton in Paris, May 1968.
Chark@CoharkinOct 19
Replying to @hayasaka_aryan
The face of someone that changed his political views in one day.
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I'm sorry, but calling Ben Davison a "PE teacher" is incredibly disrespectful. He'd never qualify for that.
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Recently sat down to watch The Lady Vanishes, starring the delightful Margaret Rutherford. Except Rutherford isn't in it, and never was: "the lady" is played by May Whitty. Someone else I spoke to also erroneously remembers Rutherford in the film. Is this a Mandela effect?
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Speaking as a fan of pulp lit, if you're gonna call yourself "Tarzan" handling a python is entry level tbh.
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@HappyPunchOct 13
Influencer Tarzan grappled with a giant 19-foot, 200-pound python and almost lost 😳 “I’m a blue belt in jiu-jitsu, but f*ck, this snake’s a black belt in the jungle… Jesus Christ, that was close.”
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Guy Davenport has a good essay on this, if I remember correctly. Shelley was a different class to everyone bar Keats, "as far above [Walter Savage] Landor as Landor was above Byron," as one critic put it.
Giles Goat-Girl@nadienadianadieOct 12
in 1817, awaiting the arrival of a massive statue of Ramesses II (known in greek as Ozymandias) at British shores, Percy Shelley and Horace Smith proposed a duel, to see who could write a better sonnet inspired by the statue and an inscription. A generational mogging ensued.
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A big hand for my new colleague Jonny Blackburn, who has already transitioned superbly to The Post's style with this thoughtful magazine-style feature. livpost.co.uk/are-we-finally…

Are we finally getting the 'new Baltic Triangle'?

Eight years and a crushed car later, Ten Streets braces for change

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And then, of course, there was this from Sophie. A real "swan" story as the graceful delivery completely belies the effort and dedication that went into it. livpost.co.uk/liverpool-hous…

Property prices in Merseyside are rocketing. But where are the hotspots?

Plus: why everyone wants a terraced house

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Anyway, it's my day off today, so I'll stop being a complete jobsworth. But just wanted to draw attention to the fact that there's maybe never been a better time to be reading The Post. Sign up if you haven't already!
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