Robin Brown
@robinbrown78.bsky.social
Journo. Lecturer. Former tarmacademic. Monkey hanger in Liverpool. Will write for hard cash.
I spent a day in Chicken Bazooka - one of Liverpool’s strangest places. Here’s what I found.
The Business Of The Chicken: 12 hours in Chicken Bazooka
Perhaps this venerable, bonkers, mediocre chicken shop is the greasy, indestructible heart of Liverpool
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November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I spent a day in Chicken Bazooka - one of Liverpool’s strangest places. Here’s what I found.
Why is Wirral weird? Imagine if the folky strangeness of Wirral became something the peninsula sold itself on, rather than ignored. In another note, there are Vikings Claremont Farm this weekend.
A long summer read from Laura Brown
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A long summer read from Laura Brown
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Wyrd Wirral
It's easy to dismiss Wirral as weird, but what if the ancient strangeness is something the peninsula should lean into, rather than ignore? Meet spirits of place on a walk along the coast.
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August 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Why is Wirral weird? Imagine if the folky strangeness of Wirral became something the peninsula sold itself on, rather than ignored. In another note, there are Vikings Claremont Farm this weekend.
A long summer read from Laura Brown
open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
A long summer read from Laura Brown
open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...
A piece 18 months in the making, tracing Liverpool’s lost rivers liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/streams-of...
Streams of consciousness: in search of Liverpool’s lost rivers
From the Alt to Jordan, how the city's buried waterways endure beneath roads, parks and time itself.
liverpoolalmanac.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A piece 18 months in the making, tracing Liverpool’s lost rivers liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/streams-of...
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Excellent by @fergalkinney.bsky.social on how nobody likes to talk about how late-period Oasis were appalling (also for anyone paying £100s in price-gouged tickets to see them this summer, how as a 15yo fan he went to see them and ended up drenched in bloke piss)
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Some Might Not Say: What a Glut of New Oasis Books is Leaving Unwritten | The Quietus
There are a glut of new Oasis books out due to the reunion, but, asks Fergal Kinney, how is the band's shocking decline in quality dealt with?
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June 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Excellent by @fergalkinney.bsky.social on how nobody likes to talk about how late-period Oasis were appalling (also for anyone paying £100s in price-gouged tickets to see them this summer, how as a 15yo fan he went to see them and ended up drenched in bloke piss)
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza
A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughter
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June 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
I have a new things. Essays and a what’s on guide to Liverpool. Yes, it’s a newsletter. liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/whats-on-i...
What's On in Liverpool in May #2
Two festivals, a new exhibition from a departing curator and a play ending its run — plus a food scene that might be new to you...
liverpoolalmanac.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I have a new things. Essays and a what’s on guide to Liverpool. Yes, it’s a newsletter. liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/whats-on-i...
"A friend once said to me, always act as though you’re the only one keeping the archive. You compile and create your own history and experience of a city."
Liverpool is a DIY city. So what's stopping you?
liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/curate-you...
Liverpool is a DIY city. So what's stopping you?
liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/curate-you...
Curate your own city
Ten years ago, a group of volunteers led by artist Sam Meech unveiled the first month of programming at Liverpool Small Cinema.
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April 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"A friend once said to me, always act as though you’re the only one keeping the archive. You compile and create your own history and experience of a city."
Liverpool is a DIY city. So what's stopping you?
liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/curate-you...
Liverpool is a DIY city. So what's stopping you?
liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/curate-you...
So long, and thanks for all the Garmonbozia
January 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
So long, and thanks for all the Garmonbozia
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Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga
It’s also a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users..
#MarkZuckerberg www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s also a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users..
#MarkZuckerberg www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga | Siva Vaidhyanathan
It’s also a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga
It’s also a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users..
#MarkZuckerberg www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s also a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users..
#MarkZuckerberg www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Not long now til @telegraphnews.bsky.social goes full on Free Tommy
January 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Not long now til @telegraphnews.bsky.social goes full on Free Tommy
David Lodge’s campus trilogy are essential reading - especially if you actually work on a campus - but I got into this work via a short story called Hotel Des Boobs, which was one of the funniest things I’d ever read www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89
The author of more than two dozen books is best known for his trio set in a fictionalised version of the University of Birmingham, where he worked from 1960 to 1987
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
David Lodge’s campus trilogy are essential reading - especially if you actually work on a campus - but I got into this work via a short story called Hotel Des Boobs, which was one of the funniest things I’d ever read www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
December 20, 2024 at 11:25 AM
I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
Among a load of right-wing drivel and complaining about fireworks - and allowing for ‘funny’ ones there are some astonishing government petitions that people launch. “Give £25,000 of taxpayers’ cash to each shop selling fishing tackle” is my favourite of this batch
December 18, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Among a load of right-wing drivel and complaining about fireworks - and allowing for ‘funny’ ones there are some astonishing government petitions that people launch. “Give £25,000 of taxpayers’ cash to each shop selling fishing tackle” is my favourite of this batch
I’ve got form with complaining about how low the Liverpool Echo’s bar is set, but this is astonishingly depressing. “But hits” isn’t a strategy.
December 4, 2024 at 9:34 AM
I’ve got form with complaining about how low the Liverpool Echo’s bar is set, but this is astonishingly depressing. “But hits” isn’t a strategy.
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Yesterday a story about 1k possible job losses in the automotive sector was top of the morning news. 10k possible job losses in HE was buried in the sector trade paper's coverage of redundancies at Sussex. Gov't & media refuse to recognise a crisis in HE. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/around-...
November 27, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Yesterday a story about 1k possible job losses in the automotive sector was top of the morning news. 10k possible job losses in HE was buried in the sector trade paper's coverage of redundancies at Sussex. Gov't & media refuse to recognise a crisis in HE. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/around-...
Always been interested in how the media attempts to influence votes, agenda-setting and policy. When Blair was in number 10 the right-wing press were cautiously amenable. I look at the front pages every day; since Labour won the vitriol from Mail, Express, Telegraph particularly is off-the-charts.
THE TIMES: UK economy takes a hit after Labour tax increases #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Always been interested in how the media attempts to influence votes, agenda-setting and policy. When Blair was in number 10 the right-wing press were cautiously amenable. I look at the front pages every day; since Labour won the vitriol from Mail, Express, Telegraph particularly is off-the-charts.
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Narrator voice: “Little did he know…”
November 19, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Narrator voice: “Little did he know…”
I think Twitter has killed off the part of me that used to do this stuff. I can’t think of a single interesting thing to share. Facebook = pictures of my kids for older relatives to enjoy. Insta = food, architecture and landscapes. What’s left when you’re in your mid-40s and so very tired?
November 18, 2024 at 7:12 PM
I think Twitter has killed off the part of me that used to do this stuff. I can’t think of a single interesting thing to share. Facebook = pictures of my kids for older relatives to enjoy. Insta = food, architecture and landscapes. What’s left when you’re in your mid-40s and so very tired?
Well so far I haven’t been served a bunch of right-wing, bot-boosted Musktrump propaganda so that’s something.
November 16, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Well so far I haven’t been served a bunch of right-wing, bot-boosted Musktrump propaganda so that’s something.