The bard pays homage to his two muses: his wife and his football club
Liverpool’s sell-by date
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
HONORABLE TRADITION OF PROTEST: Junior doctors on a picket line outside the Royal Liverpool Hospital, as thousands go on strike in a dispute with the government over new contracts, January 2016
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by an incoherent show that fails to question stereotypical assumptions about the Soviet Union
JOHN McINALLY welcomes a rigorous class analysis of the history and exploitation of sectarianism by the Scottish ruling elite
WILL STONE, JAMES WALSH and MARIA DUARTE review Souleymane’s Story, Sunlight, Good Fortune, and After The Hunt
ALEX HALL recommends an exhaustive investigation of the means by which the Starmer faction assassinated the left
DAVID MORGAN recommends a refreshingly inspiring novel that features encounters with some tremendous women
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain
Sam Wetherell, Head of Zeus, £25
USING Liverpool as a prism to reflect on the “unmaking” of Britain is a departure from most treatments of the city.
Liverpudlians have often represented themselves as apart from the nation, as internationalists and Atlanticists, as more Irish than English.
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