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Joe Riley is arts editor, columnist and leader writer for the Liverpool ECHO. The Life of Riley is a wry look at existence - local, national and international (and occasionally into outer space) - as seen by the UK's senior serving arts critic and the ECHO's longest-serving journalist.

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Hung Out To Dry: an everyday story of cultural folk - and fish

Posted by Joe Riley on August 15, 2007 8:47 AM | 

How does it feel, one wonders, to stick around heading up a company that has lost the confidence of its directors, is declared to be in need of daily baby minding by the leader of the city council, and is increasingly mocked/and/or loathed by the public at large?
Of course the salary could play a part. Otherwise, you'd be hiding somewhere further away than Osama, wouldn't you?
Am I talking of Jason Harborow, chief executive of the Culture Company, or his ultimate boss, Colin Hilton, chief executive of the council?

That's what will make the independent inquiiry into the Mathew Street debacle more of a show trial for crimes against the humantities.
Meanwhile, stunning news from the waterfront.
No, not another building plan that won't come to fruition, but rather a scheme to remove and stun fish from the docks for the big Liverpool 08 concert and temporarily accommodate them elsewhere.
And how much is that humane little exercise going to cost?
Surely it would be better to hoik them out, drop them into hot batter (a feeling already understood by culture and council bosses) and feed the five thousand spectators.

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