I’m at Lib Dem conference all week in the lovely shiny new Liverpool Arena. I’m blogging like crazy over on LibDemVoice.org, and plucking up the courage to use my new podcasting thingy.

I always forget just how lovely Liverpool is. I’ve been here two or three times before, on a ringing tour in the 90s, visiting friends in Crosby, and probably one other time. P’s sister used to work here as a junior writer on Brookside (apparently one of the few streets in Liverpool not to get FOCUS leaflets).

And yet I never remember it’s a great place. I really must come back as a tourist some time and spend some proper time in the city – hopefully at a time when the city is NOT ram-packed with a conference and a home match, and the hotels are rubbing their hands in glee and charging top whack.