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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
Theatre review: Angel Meadow
Hell on earth in mayhem’s Meadow — PAUL FOLEY reports on a stunning interactive production which catalogues the experience of Irish immigrants in Manchester’s slums
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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“Hell upon earth. Everything here arouses horror and indignation.” Thus declared Friedrich Engels about Angel Meadow, the squalid working-class slum in Manchester’s Ancoats district.
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