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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Manchester gang history with an acute modern twist
Paul Foley reviews Scuttlers at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
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Scuttlers were Manchester’s original street gangs, operating throughout the city in the late Victorian period.
Mainly based in the streets around the cotton mills of Ancoats, the gangs of youngsters — some as young as 12 — engaged in brutal turf wars with rival gangs often just one street away.
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