A number of Hull’s historic maritime paintings from the Hull Maritime Museum, with some dating back to the 1700s, have been sent to a specialist […]
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Phil’s Forty, 40: The year that got away
So there we are, 40 essays all done but of course it wasn’t supposed to be like this. When the Editor and I sat down […]
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Phil’s Forty, 39: Lessons from the old school
It was maybe five or six years ago that I sat in a client meeting and heard another journalist, aged thirty-something, describe himself as “old […]
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Phil’s Forty, 38: A spellbinding story
My favourite from all the stories across more than 40 years was one of the first I ever wrote. It was first published in the […]
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Phil’s Forty, 37: The Sooty Show, media cliques and the sex scandal that got away
It’s a strange thing, journalism. And the same goes for many of the people who do it. For every journalist who gets to the very […]
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Phil’s Forty, 36: “We’re all in the World Cup”
The sun blazed down, the bands punched out a pulsating musical backdrop and the aromas wafting across from the adjacent field lured spectators to an […]
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Phil’s Forty, 35: Private practice
It started as a conversation about a commercial property firm agreeing a one-year lease with a business in Hull which needed a big industrial shed. […]
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Phil’s Forty, 34: Page-turners.
My departure from PA Sport came when they said they were not going do any more books about sport. Whether they stuck to that I […]
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Phil’s Forty, 33: World of sport
Apparently some people don’t like football, so I can only apologise that it features again in this piece, and that for more than 10 years […]
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Phil’s Forty, 32: Sporting chances
Even as a business journalist there were opportunities to write about sport. Usually they involved covering the business angles, such as a Hull City sponsorship […]
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