DENNIS BROE notes what happens to content when the streaming giants incorporate AI and deregulation into their economic models
Liverpool’s sell-by date
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre

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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