Fear and loathing in Liverpool
Why a “left-wing city” can still host a race riot.
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This City Is Ours: a highly superior Scouse Dallas
This series, starring Sean Bean, is the perfect combination of menace and farce. And the accents, the clothes, the caterpillar…
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Southport and the rage of England
The violence of the summer has left deep scars, and open wounds, across the country.
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Battle cry of the Scouse dads
In their book Head North, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram continue to peddle a tired northern exceptionalism.
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Revolution in the Wirral
Also this week: world-class music in schools, and making space for culture.
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Paul Nowak: “I fit every stereotype of a Daily Mail trade unionist”
The TUC general secretary on Labour, taxation, and the false promises of the green economy.
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Why Eurovision is beloved by the LGBTQ community
The contest, developed in the 1950s as an opportunity for cheap TV, is now synonymous with camp. How did it…
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When Eurovision came to Liverpool
In a festival of geopolitics, money, culture and high camp, the proud outsider city spies a chance for renewal
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Knowsley anti-asylum riot: “If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere”
In the aftermath of violent protests at a hotel housing refugees, the outskirts of historically left-wing Liverpool are polarised.
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Were fake tickets behind the Champions League final chaos?
French ministers refuse to accept that a train strike, poor organisation and violent police tactics contributed to the incident.
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Booing the national anthem is as British as singing it
Irreverent anti-elitism is the point of post-Brexit Britain.
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UK raises terror threat level to “severe”. What does this mean?
A further terrorist attack is now regarded as “highly likely” by the independent Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre.
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