Liam Thorp

Over the moon to win the Regional Press Awards Specialist Journalist of the Year award. Very grateful for all the people who trust me with their stories and the colleagues who support me along the way

Today the @liverpoolecho.co.uk officially joins the campaign for Gabe’s Law - which is seeking to increase the safety and security around multi-storey car parks to prevent more people falling to their deaths The campaign is named after 15-year-old Gabriel Santer who tragically died in 2020

Blimey

I expect lots of lower level staff and reporters will face the brunt of this while Allister Heath writes columns about how anyone trying to resist a takeover by our AI overlords is suffering from the woke brain disease

Could not agree more. I’ve previously found his ubiquitousness a bit irritating but clearly haven’t paid enough attention. He is such good fun.

James Blunt is truly one of the strangest men alive

Some line-up this

Showed this pic to my three-year-old who was understandably far more interested in the fire trucks

In parts of Merseyside, migrant care workers are being routinely racially abused and attacked by primary school-aged children Sickening in so many ways

The front page of today’s @liverpoolecho.co.uk on an exciting day for the city

Andy Burnham says huge new Beatles Story plans will be 'a world-class addition to Liverpool'

BREAKING: 'Spectacular' new Beatles attraction to transform iconic Liverpool city centre locations Read all about the huge plans here

The Diplomat remains one of the most exciting, tense and downright fun shows on TV. Even its daft bits are endlessly enthralling. Great entertainment.

Beautiful North Wales is always good for the soul

I’m basically in the cabinet at this point

Katie Zacharia making Liz Truss look like an absolute stalwart in office

That poor fella who was provoked into saying he wanted to bath his colleague as if she was his daughter, bloody rough on him...

Went to see this guy talk last night. Utterly captivating, hopeful, inspiring. Yes it makes you sad for what came after him, but as he kept saying, things can change and they can be better again.

Turns out industrial scale cheating can create a pretty good football team

A Reform Council tried to cancel Black History Month celebrations Local people had a different idea...

Reform UK's St Helens council leader has been forced to backtrack after saying the "jury was out" on whether his council would commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. He has since confirmed the council will mark it. This came after he announced the council wouldn't be celebrating Black History Month

Paraglider against the famous Liverpool skyline

Austerity 2.0 is it chaps? I’m always amazed at how these guys derive genuine excitement at the idea of slashing public services

Today's @liverpoolecho.co.uk after that remarkable speech by our Scouser Prime Minister

If Chris Philp is the answer, I don't want to know what the question is

Steve Rotheram went all Kirkby just then when Laura K doubted devolution's credentials 😂

Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.

Today’s @liverpoolecho.co.uk front page as Prime Minister Andy Burnham comes back to his birth city for the Labour Party Conference

Exclusive: I asked Andy Burnham about the gangs of masked thugs marauding around parts of our country and asked if he and his government should be doing more to call out their actions He called them ‘poisonous’ amongst other strong words. His condemnation was unequivocal. Full story here 👇

That was a day

Andy Burnham was born in Liverpool. His ancestors first arrived here from Ireland in the 1800s He returns this weekend as Prime Minister, ready to deliver the biggest speech of his life at Labour Party Conference I joined him on the Mersey Ferry today and asked how this city has shaped him

We are heading for a very difficult winter

The lads enjoyed dad’s outing on BBC Breakfast this morning

Amazing this needs saying, but on this website it clearly does.

Can anyone explain to me why this article doesn't mention anywhere that small boat crossings are down 42% from last year? That doesn't mean it's not an issue 781 people arrived in one day. But it seems like the sort of context a reputable news source might mention www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is her field of wheat

Thankfully yes now

So that guy who live streamed himself trying to drown someone by stabbing their boat with a knife and who has been continually blocking ports and intimidating communities with a band of masked thugs. He’s surely just going to be arrested right? Right?

This is simply far-right terrorism. And right now it’s being done with impunity.

An utterly heartbreaking day on Merseyside

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

But more of this sort of thing from ministers please