In view of today's extraordinary news - the cancellation of the Mathew Street festival - I have postponed a blog on the subjects flagged up in today's ECHO regarding high court sentencing and theology (will return to those at a later date, no doubt).
Instead, the all-consuming issue is the fiasco of the Mathew Street Festival.

All too often nowadays, particularly in national politics and sport, we hear of calls for resignations following some almighty mistake.
This is not always necessary.
But it becomes so, if a particular issue is likely to so impinge on the general perception of an individual or organisation that it is likely to affect the way it or they are perceived on a permanent basis.
That - and that foremost - is the reason why the failure to stage a Mathew Street Festival at such a late stage - must be a resignation issue.
It is a social, financial, political and public relations disaster beyond our imagining.
It would be impossible to do worse damange to Liverpool's internaitonal profile, with tens of thousands of tourists booked and paid up to visit from all parts of the world.
The mind boggles how 100 people working full-time at enourmous expense managed to irreversibly destroy their credibility.
This worldwide blog will hopefully broadcast the lack of confidence we in Liverpool now hold in those who have allowed this situation to develop ( I say that as the city's arts editor for 36 years).
These duffers will be for ever tainted - right through 2008 and beyond into the history books - with the consequences of their costly and ultimately unproductive strategy concerning Europe's largest free music festival.
But exactly who should go? The chief executive of the council, the council leader, or the head of the culture company? One or all? For all must accept a degree of blame for this monumental error of judgement, which has brought such a disasterous result.
What we have seen demonstrated is a masterclass in incompetence.
Certainly, in most walks of commercial life, heads would roll.
There is no reason whatsoever to argue otherwise in this case.
If they have people to speak in their defence, then they had better produce them quickly.
For both the council and the culture company, this is the day of reckoning - and from where I sit it's been a long time coming.

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